pitching
English
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈpɪt͡ʃ.ɪŋ/
Verb
pitching
- present participle of pitch
- As the pilot fought the hijackers for control the aeroplane was pitching wildly.
See also
- pitching a tent
Noun
pitching (plural pitchings)
- The act of throwing or casting.
- wild pitching in baseball
- The rough paving of a street to a grade with blocks of stone.
- c. 1874, Henry Mayhew, London Characters
- All this testifies to that yearning for green fields and rural sports which a life amidst bricks, pavements and pitching-stones
- c. 1874, Henry Mayhew, London Characters
- (engineering) A facing of stone laid upon a bank to prevent wear by tides or currents.
References
- pitching in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913