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- English Word Pitch Definition See Pitchstone.
- English Word Pitch Definition To cover over or smear with pitch.
- English Word Pitch Definition Fig.: To darken; to blacken; to obscure.
- English Word Pitch Definition To throw, generally with a definite aim or purpose; to cast; to hurl; to toss; as, to pitch quoits; to pitch hay; to pitch a ball.
- English Word Pitch Definition To thrust or plant in the ground, as stakes or poles; hence, to fix firmly, as by means of poles; to establish; to arrange; as, to pitch a tent; to pitch a camp.
- English Word Pitch Definition To set, face, or pave with rubble or undressed stones, as an embankment or a roadway.
- English Word Pitch Definition To fix or set the tone of; as, to pitch a tune.
- English Word Pitch Definition To set or fix, as a price or value.
- English Word Pitch Definition To fix or place a tent or temporary habitation; to encamp.
- English Word Pitch Definition To light; to settle; to come to rest from flight.
- 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.