Pitching
['pɪtʃɪŋ]
Definition
(noun.) (baseball) playing the position of pitcher on a baseball team.
Typist: Norton--From WordNet
Definition
(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Pitch
(n.) The act of throwing or casting; a cast; a pitch; as, wild pitching in baseball.
(n.) The rough paving of a street to a grade with blocks of stone.
(n.) A facing of stone laid upon a bank to prevent wear by tides or currents.
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Examples
- Pitching somebody into a mud-cart,' said Miss Wren. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- Directing the pitching of the chair in an affable and easy manner, Mr. Bucket dismisses the Mercuries and locks the door again. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- A dozen dead and dying men rolled hither and thither upon the pitching deck, the living intermingled with the dead. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
- Here, Bruno, he called, whistling to the lumbering Newfoundland, who came pitching tumultuously toward them. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- For the safety and comfort of passengers, the great length reduces the pitching, bilge keels prevent rolling, and the Schlick system of cranks neutralizes vibration in the engine. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- I see you want pitching into that stream, replied Maurice, rising. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
- Don't seem to be of the pitching-in order. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- I say having my late governor and my late mother in my eye--that Georgiana don't seem to be of the pitching-in order. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- The cost of material need not exceed $5 for a 10-foot well, and the driving of the pipe could be made as much a part of the camping as the pitching of the tent itself. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- That accounts for your pitching your voice so high. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
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