| Pitch (pitch) |
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| n. | (?) |
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| Pitch |
| [OE. pich, AS.
pic, L. pix; akin to Gr. (?).] |
A
thick, black, lustrous, and sticky substance obtained by boiling down
tar. It is used in calking the seams of ships; also in coating rope,
canvas, wood, ironwork, etc., to preserve them.
See
Pitchstone.
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To cover over or smear with pitch.
Fig.: To darken] to blacken; to
obscure.
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| Pitch (pitch) |
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| v. t. | (?) |
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| Pitch |
| [OE. picchen;
akin to E. pick, pike.] |
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.
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.
To set, face, or pave with rubble or
undressed stones, as an embankment or a roadway.
To fix or set the tone of; as, to
pitch a tune.
To set or fix, as a price or value.
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To
fix or place a tent or temporary habitation; to encamp.
To light; to settle; to come to rest from
flight.
To fix one's choise; -- with on or
upon.
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.
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A
throw; a toss; a cast, as of something from the hand; as, a good
pitch in quoits.
That point of the ground
on which the ball pitches or lights when bowled.
A point or peak; the extreme point or
degree of elevation or depression; hence, a limit or bound.
Height; stature.
A descent; a fall; a thrusting
down.
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.
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.
The limit of ground set to
a miner who receives a share of the ore taken out.
The
distance from center to center of any two adjacent teeth of gearing,
measured on the pitch line; -- called also circular
pitch.
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The
distance between symmetrically arranged or corresponding parts of an
armature, measured along a line, called the pitch line, drawn
around its length. Sometimes half of this distance is called the
pitch.
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