·add. ·- A game of cards in which the players bid for the privilege of determining or "pitching" the trump suit.
·vt To sell by auction. II. Auction ·noun The things sold by auction or put up to auction. III. Au...
Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
·noun Height; stature. II. Pitch ·noun To cover over or smear with pitch. III. Pitch ·noun A desce...
(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
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
The three Hebrew words so translated all represent the same object, viz., mineral pitch or asphalt i...
William Smith's Bible Dictionary
·add. ·- A variety of the game of bridge in which the players, beginning with the dealer, bid for th...
·adj Black as pitch or tar. ...
·adj Dark as a pitch; pitch-black. ...
·adj Having the arris defined by a line beyond which the rock is cut away, so as to give nearly true...
·noun <<Pitchblende>>. ...
·noun Copper so reduced; — called also tough-cake. II. Tough-pitch ·noun The exact state or qualit...
Stuck fast, confounded. ...
Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
A mixture of colophony, black pitch, and tar. They are boiled down together, and put into barrels of...
A vessel fitted for boiling pitch in, which should be veered astern of the one being caulked. ...
A place set apart for the boiling of pitch for the seams and bottoms of vessels. ...
That in which the pitch is heated, or in which it is carried from the pitch-pot. ...
Is used for paying decks and horizontal work. ...
The implement with which the hot pitch is laid on to ships' sides and perpendicular work. ...
♦ Pinus resinosa, commonly called Norway or red pine. (See pine.) ...
See chewing of oakum ...
To set to work earnestly; to beat a person violently. (A colloquialism.) ...
On the west side of Tokenhouse Yard at No.19 (P.O. Directory). Built about 1865. Architect, S. Clar...
A Dictionary of London by Henry A Harben.
The seam which margins the water-ways was called the "devil," why only caulkers can tell, who perhap...