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Pitching

noun

(baseball) playing the position of pitcher on a baseball team.

Abrupt up-and-down motion (as caused by a ship or other conveyance). Synonyms: lurch, pitch.

Pitch

verb

(past & past part. pitched; pres. part. pitching)

Throw or toss with a light motion. Synonyms: flip, sky, toss. "Toss me newspaper"

Move abruptly. Synonyms: lurch, shift.

Fall or plunge forward.

Set to a certain pitch.

Sell or offer for sale from place to place. Synonyms: hawk, huckster, monger, peddle, vend.

Be at an angle. Synonyms: incline, slope.

Heel over. Synonyms: cant, cant over, slant, tilt. "The ceiling is slanting"

Erect and fasten. Synonym: set up.

Throw or hurl from the mound to the batter, as in baseball. Synonym: deliver.

10.

Hit (a golf ball) in a high arc with a backspin.

11.

Lead (a card) and establish the trump suit.

12.

Set the level or character of. Synonym: gear.

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"Pitching" Quotes from Famous Books

... the pip, took to chewing tobacco and spitting in the waste-baskets, and raised proper —— with the pups. He came up to me one day with Uncle Harry looking out of his eyes and gave me a short biography of myself. I stood it as long as I could, and then I seemed to be pitching in an exciting ball game. My right hand shot out, and before I knew it Penton was lying down at my feet. When he got up he almost cried, and tried to tell me he was just fooling. I noticed that night that the guns were missing from the cage drawer, and fearing that Penton had them ...

— A Canadian Bankclerk • J. P. Buschlen

... confused, even under her enwrappings, and in stepping down her foot slipped. Reddy instantly scrambled up to her and caught her as she was pitching forward into the furrow. Yet in the struggle to keep his own foothold he was aware that she was assisting him, and although he had passed his arm around her waist, as if for her better security, it was only through HER firm grasp of his wrists that ...

— A Protegee of Jack Hamlin's and Other Stories • Bret Harte

... seen was enough to fill any man with amazement. Out of the small square window which faced him a man had suddenly shot head-foremost, pitching on to his outstretched hands and then bounding to his feet. Within a foot of his heels came the head of a second one, who fell more heavily than the first, and yet recovered himself as quickly. The one wore the blue coat with silver facings of the king's guard; the second had the dark coat and ...

— The Refugees • Arthur Conan Doyle

... the tender father unconsciously bent his eyes on Eve, who leaned affectionately on his arm, steadying her light form against the pitching of the vessel. She understood his feelings better than he did himself, possibly, since, accustomed to his fondest care from childhood, she well knew that he seldom thought of others, or even of himself, while her own wants or safety appealed to his ...

— Homeward Bound - or, The Chase • James Fenimore Cooper

... quite clear on that point. What I really want to know is the reason behind Simmonds's statement about Count Marigny's tale-pitching, as you ...

— Cynthia's Chauffeur • Louis Tracy

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