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1. a vendor's position ( especially on the sidewalk); " he was employed to see that his paper's news pitches were not trespassed upon by rival vendors"
2. set to a certain pitch; " He pitched his voice very low"
5. throw or hurl from the mound to the batter, as in baseball; " The pitcher delivered the ball"
6. erect and fasten; " pitch a tent"
7. fall or plunge forward; " She pitched over the railing of the balcony"
8. 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.
9. 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.
11. To cover over or smear with pitch.
12. Fig.: To darken; to blacken; to obscure.
13. 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.
14. 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.
15. To set, face, or pave with rubble or undressed stones, as an embankment or a roadway.
16. To fix or set the tone of; as, to pitch a tune.
17. To set or fix, as a price or value.
18. To fix or place a tent or temporary habitation; to encamp.
19. To light; to settle; to come to rest from flight.
20. 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.
21. A throw; a toss; a cast, as of something from the hand; as, a good pitch in quoits.
22. That point of the ground on which the ball pitches or lights when bowled.
23. A point or peak; the extreme point or degree of elevation or depression; hence, a limit or bound.
25. A descent; a fall; a thrusting down.
26. 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.
27. The limit of ground set to a miner who receives a share of the ore taken out.
28. The distance between the centers of holes, as of rivet holes in boiler plates.
29. To fix one's choise; - with on or upon.
30. The distance from center to center of any two adjacent teeth of gearing, measured on the pitch line; - called also circular pitch.
32. Degree of elevation; descent.
33. To settle; fix; fall headlong; rise and fall.
34. To smear or fill with pitch.
35. To threw; toss; fix; fix the tone.
The season must have been early spring or late autumn, for it was pitch- dark and very cold. - "Reminiscences of a South African Pioneer", W. C. Scully.
It was now pitch- dark also, and he could but feel that his adventures in Mexico were beginning in a remarkably unpleasant manner. - "Ahead of the Army", W. O. Stoddard.
" You can keep nothing up to the pitch of a crisis. - "To-morrow?", Victoria Cross.