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Webster 1913 Edition

Pitching

Pitch′ing

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Noun.
1.
The act of throwing or casting; a cast; a pitch;
as, wild
pitching
in baseball
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2.
The rough paving of a street to a grade with blocks of stone.
Mayhew.
3.
(Hydraul. Eng.)
A facing of stone laid upon a bank to prevent wear by tides or currents.
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.

Webster 1828 Edition

Pitching

PITCH'ING

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ppr.
Setting; planting or fixing; throwing headlong; plunging; daubing with pitch; setting, as a tune.
1.
a. Declivous; descending; sloping; as a hill.

PITCH'ING

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Noun.
In navigation, the rising and falling of the head and stern of a ship, as she moves over waves; or the vertical vibration of a ship about her center of gravity.

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