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- English Word Pitch Definition To fix one's choise; -- with on or upon.
- English Word Pitch Definition To plunge or fall; esp., to fall forward; to decline or slope; as, to pitch from a precipice; the vessel pitches in a heavy sea; the field pitches toward the east.
- English Word Pitch Definition A throw; a toss; a cast, as of something from the hand; as, a good pitch in quoits.
- English Word Pitch Definition That point of the ground on which the ball pitches or lights when bowled.
- English Word Pitch Definition A point or peak; the extreme point or degree of elevation or depression; hence, a limit or bound.
- English Word Pitch Definition Height; stature.
- English Word Pitch Definition A descent; a fall; a thrusting down.
- English Word Pitch Definition The point where a declivity begins; hence, the declivity itself; a descending slope; the degree or rate of descent or slope; slant; as, a steep pitch in the road; the pitch of a roof.
- English Word Pitch Definition The relative acuteness or gravity of a tone, determined by the number of vibrations which produce it; the place of any tone upon a scale of high and low.
- English Word Pitch Definition The limit of ground set to a miner who receives a share of the ore taken out.
- English Word Pitch Definition The distance from center to center of any two adjacent teeth of gearing, measured on the pitch line; -- called also circular pitch.
- English Word Pitch Definition The length, measured along the axis, of a complete turn of the thread of a screw, or of the helical lines of the blades of a screw propeller.
- English Word Pitch Definition The distance between the centers of holes, as of rivet holes in boiler plates.
- English Word Pitch-black Definition Black as pitch or tar.
- English Word Pitch-dark Definition Dark as a pitch; pitch-black.
- English Word Pitch-faced Definition Having the arris defined by a line beyond which the rock is cut away, so as to give nearly true edges; -- said of squared stones that are otherwise quarry-faced.
- English Word Pitch-ore Definition Pitchblende.
- English Word Pitchblende Definition A pitch-black mineral consisting chiefly of the oxide of uranium; uraninite. See Uraninite.
- English Word Pitched Definition of Pitch
- English Word Pitcher Definition One who pitches anything, as hay, quoits, a ball, etc.; specifically (Baseball), the player who delivers the ball to the batsman.
- English Word Pitcher Definition A sort of crowbar for digging.
- English Word Pitcher Definition A wide-mouthed, deep vessel for holding liquids, with a spout or protruding lip and a handle; a water jug or jar with a large ear or handle.
- English Word Pitcher Definition A tubular or cuplike appendage or expansion of the leaves of certain plants.
- English Word Pitcherful Definition The quantity a pitcher will hold.
- English Word Pitcherfuls Definition of Pitcherful
- English Word Pitchfork Definition A fork, or farming utensil, used in pitching hay, sheaves of grain, or the like.
- English Word Pitchfork Definition To pitch or throw with, or as with, a pitchfork.
- English Word Pitchiness Definition Blackness, as of pitch; darkness.
- English Word Pitching Definition of Pitch
- English Word Pitching Definition The act of throwing or casting; a cast; a pitch; as, wild pitching in baseball.