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Pitch
·noun Height; stature.
II. Pitch ·noun To cover over or smear with pitch.
III. Pitch ·noun A desce...
Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
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Pitch
(Gen. 6:14), asphalt or bitumen in its soft state, called "slime" (Gen. 11:3; 14:10; Ex. 2:3), found...
Easton's Bible Dictionary
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pitch
Tar and coarse resin boiled to a fluid yet tenacious consistence.
It is used in a hot state with o...
The Sailor's Word-Book
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Pitch
The three Hebrew words so translated all represent the same object, viz., mineral pitch or asphalt i...
William Smith's Bible Dictionary
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Pine
·noun Woe; torment; pain.
II. Pine ·v To grieve or mourn for.
III. Pine ·noun The wood of the pine...
Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
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pine
n.
The Pines are widely distributedin Australasia, and include some of the noblest species.The name...
Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris
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pine
it's pine, q. pein, it's difficult. N.
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A glossary of provincial and local words used in England by Francis Grose
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pine
A genus of lofty coniferous trees, abounding in temperate climates, and valuable for its timber and ...
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Auction pitch
·add. ·- A game of cards in which the players bid for the privilege of determining or "pitching" the...
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Pitch-black
·adj Black as pitch or tar.
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Pitch-dark
·adj Dark as a pitch; pitch-black.
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Pitch-faced
·adj Having the arris defined by a line beyond which the rock is cut away, so as to give nearly true...
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Pitch-ore
·noun <<Pitchblende>>.
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Tough-pitch
·noun Copper so reduced;
— called also tough-cake.
II. Tough-pitch ·noun The exact state or qualit...
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pitch-kettled
Stuck fast, confounded.
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Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
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bastard-pitch
A mixture of colophony, black pitch, and tar. They are boiled down together, and put into barrels of...
The Sailor's Word-Book
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pitch-boat
A vessel fitted for boiling pitch in, which should be veered astern of the one being caulked.
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pitch-house
A place set apart for the boiling of pitch for the seams and bottoms of vessels.
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pitch-kettle
That in which the pitch is heated, or in which it is carried from the pitch-pot.
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pitch-ladle
Is used for paying decks and horizontal work.
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pitch-mop
The implement with which the hot pitch is laid on to ships' sides and perpendicular work.
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Amboyna pine
·add. ·- The resiniferous tree Agathis Dammara, of the Moluccas.
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Chilean pine
·add. ·- ·same·as Monkey-puzzle.
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Lambert pine
·- The gigantic sugar pine of California and Oregon (Pinus Lambertiana). It has the leaves in fives,...
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Pine-clad
·adj ·Alt. of Pine-crowned.
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Pine-crowned
·adj Clad or crowned with pine trees; as, pine-clad hills.
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Slash pine
·- A kind of pine tree (Pinus Cubensis) found in Southern Florida and the West Indies;
— so called ...
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Pine tree
Heb. tidhar, mentioned along with the fir-tree in Isa. 41:19; 60:13. This is probably the cypress; o...
Easton's Bible Dictionary
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chestnut pine
n.
See pine.
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Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris
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dundathu pine
See dundathee
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Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris
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hoop-pine
n.
another name for the tree Araucaria cunninghami or Moreton-Bay Pine.See Pine.
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Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris
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huon-pine
n.
a large Tasmanian evergreen tree, Dacrydium franklinii, Hook, N.O. Coniferae. Thetimber is prize...
Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris
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Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris
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macquarie pine
n.
See pine.
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Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris
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murrumbidgee pine
n.
See pine.
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Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris
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prickly pine
n.
See pine.
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Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris
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scrub-pine
n.
See pine.
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Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris
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pine barrens
A term applied to level, sandy tracts, covered with pine-trees, in the Southern.States.--Worcester.
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Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.
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red pine
♦ Pinus rubra, the red spruce; the timber of which is preferred throughout the United States for yar...
The Sailor's Word-Book
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Pine Tree
Heb. tidhar . (Isaiah 41:19; 60:13) What tree is intended is not certain: but the rendering "pine," ...
William Smith's Bible Dictionary
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chewing of pitch
See chewing of oakum
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pitch in, to
To set to work earnestly; to beat a person violently. (A colloquialism.)
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Pine-tree State
·add. ·- Maine;
— a nickname alluding to the pine tree in its coat of arms.
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Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
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Pine Apple Court
Opposite Crab Court and Woolsack Alley. In Portsoken Ward (Strype, ed. 1720, I. ii. 27-Boyle, 1799)....
A Dictionary of London by Henry A Harben.
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celery-topped pine
. n.
See pine.
The tree is so called from the appearance of the upper part of thebranchlets, which...
Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris
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king william pine
n.
a Tasmanian tree.See cedar.
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Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris
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moreton-bay pine
n.
See pine.
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Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris
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Norfolk Island Pine
n. See pine.
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Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris
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oyster-bay pine
n.
See pine.
1857. `Papers and Proceedings of the Royal Society of VanDiemen's Land,' vol. i. p. 1...
Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris
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Port-Macquarie Pine
See pine.
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Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris
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devil to pay and no pitch hot
The seam which margins the water-ways was called the "devil," why only caulkers can tell, who perhap...
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