Definition of pitch

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Pitch (n.) 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..

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Pitching :: Pitching (n.) The act of throwing or casting; a cast; a pitch; as, wild pitching in baseball..
Lightwood :: Lightwood (n.) Pine wood abounding in pitch, used for torches in the Southern United States; pine knots, dry sticks, and the like, for kindling a fire quickly or making a blaze..
Acuteness :: Acuteness (n.) Shrillness; high pitch; -- said of sounds.
Pitcher :: Pitcher (n.) A sort of crowbar for digging.
Major :: Major (a.) Greater by a semitone, either in interval or in difference of pitch from another tone..
Picene :: Picene (n.) A hydrocarbon (C/H/) extracted from the pitchy residue of coal tar and petroleum as a bluish fluorescent crystalline substance.
Laborsome :: Laborsome (a.) Likely or inclined to roll or pitch, as a ship in a heavy sea; having a tendency to labor..
Pitch :: Pitch (n.) The distance from center to center of any two adjacent teeth of gearing, measured on the pitch line; -- called also circular pitch..
Low :: Low (adv.) With a low musical pitch or tone.
Imitation :: Imitation (n.) One of the principal means of securing unity and consistency in polyphonic composition; the repetition of essentially the same melodic theme, phrase, or motive, on different degrees of pitch, by one or more of the other parts of voises. Cf. Canon..
Pitchblende :: Pitchblende (n.) A pitch-black mineral consisting chiefly of the oxide of uranium; uraninite. See Uraninite.
Pitch-black :: Pitch-black (a.) Black as pitch or tar.
Hayfork :: Hayfork (n.) A fork for pitching and tedding hay.
Plunge :: Plunge (n.) The act of thrusting into or submerging; a dive, leap, rush, or pitch into, or as into, water; as, to take the water with a plunge..
Pitch :: Pitch (n.) The distance between the centers of holes, as of rivet holes in boiler plates..
Pitch-dark :: Pitch-dark (a.) Dark as a pitch; pitch-black.
Operculum :: Operculum (n.) The lid of a pitcherform leaf.
Pitch :: Pitch (v. i.) To light; to settle; to come to rest from flight.
Washstand :: Washstand (n.) A piece of furniture holding the ewer or pitcher, basin, and other requisites for washing the person..
Pay :: Pay (v. t.) To cover, as bottom of a vessel, a seam, a spar, etc., with tar or pitch, or waterproof composition of tallow, resin, etc.; to smear..
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