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[syn: lurch, pitch, pitching]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Pitch \Pitch\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Pitched; p. pr. & vb. n.
Pitching.] [See Pitch, n.]
1. To cover over or smear with pitch. --Gen. vi. 14.
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2. Fig.: To darken; to blacken; to obscure.
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The welkin pitched with sullen could. --Addison.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Pitching \Pitch"ing\, n.
1. The act of throwing or casting; a cast; a pitch; as, wild
pitching in baseball.
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2. The rough paving of a street to a grade with blocks of
stone. --Mayhew.
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3. (Hydraul. Eng.) A facing of stone laid upon a bank to
prevent wear by tides or currents.
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Pitching piece (Carp.), the horizontal timber supporting
the floor of a platform of a stairway, and against which
the stringpieces of the sloping parts are supported.
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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
pitching
n 1: (baseball) playing the position of pitcher on a baseball
team
2: abrupt up-and-down motion (as caused by a ship or other
conveyance); "the pitching and tossing was quite exciting"
[syn: lurch, pitch, pitching]
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:
37 Moby Thesaurus words for "pitching":
archery, careening, casting, chucking, dangling, firing, flinging,
gunnery, heaving, hurling, inclining, jaculation, leaning, lobbing,
lurching, musketry, oblique, pitched, projection, reeling, rocking,
rolling, shooting, skeet, skeet shooting, slinging, sloped,
sloping, swaying, swinging, throwing, tilted, tilting, tipped,
tossing, trajection, trapshooting