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- [1] : 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.
1913 webster
2. the rough paving of a street to a grade with blocks of
stone. --mayhew.
1913 webster
3. hydraul. eng. a facing of stone laid upon a bank to
prevent wear by tides or currents.
1913 webster
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.
1913 webster
see also:
pitching piece
- [2] : 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.
1913 webster
2. fig.: to darken; to blacken; to obscure.
1913 webster
the welkin pitched with sullen could. --addison.
1913 webster
see also:
pitched pitching pitch
- [3] : WordNet (r) 2.0
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
see also:
lurch pitch
- [4] : 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
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