·noun Height; stature.
II. Pitch ·noun To cover over or smear with pitch.
III. Pitch ·noun A descent; a fall; a thrusting down.
IV. Pitch ·vt To set or fix, as a price or value.
V. Pitch ·noun ·see Pitchstone.
VI. Pitch ·vi To fix one's choise;
— with on or upon.
VII. Pitch ·vt To fix or set the tone of; as, to pitch a tune.
VIII. Pitch ·noun That point of the ground on which the ball pitches or lights when bowled.
IX. Pitch ·noun The limit of ground set to a miner who receives a share of the ore taken out.
X. Pitch ·noun The distance between the centers of holes, as of rivet holes in boiler plates.
XI. Pitch ·vi To fix or place a tent or temporary habitation; to Encamp.
XII. Pitch ·noun A throw; a toss; a cast, as of something from the hand; as, a good pitch in quoits.
XIII. Pitch ·vt To set, face, or pave with rubble or undressed stones, as an embankment or a roadway.
XIV. Pitch ·noun Fig.: To darken; to Blacken; to Obscure.
XV. Pitch ·vi To Light; to Settle; to come to rest from flight.
XVI. Pitch ·noun A point or peak; the extreme point or degree of elevation or depression; hence, a limit or bound.
XVII. Pitch ·noun The distance from center to center of any two adjacent teeth of gearing, measured on the pitch line;
— called also circular pitch.
XVIII. Pitch ·noun The length, measured along the axis, of a complete turn of the thread of a screw, or of the helical lines of the blades of a screw propeller.
XIX. Pitch ·noun 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.
XX. Pitch ·vi 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.
XXI. Pitch ·noun The point where a declivity begins; hence, the declivity itself; a descending slope; the degree or rate of descent or slope; slant; as, a steep pitch in the road; the pitch of a roof.
XXII. Pitch ·noun 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.
XXIII. Pitch ·vt 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.
XXIV. Pitch ·vt 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.
XXV. Pitch ·add. ·noun 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.