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Pitching - Dictionary Definition and Overview |
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Pitching : (noun)
1: (baseball) playing the position of pitcher on a baseball
team
2: abrupt up-and-down motion (as caused by a ship or other
conveyance); "the pitching and tossing was quite exciting"
[syn: lurch, pitch]
Based on WordNet 2.0
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Pitch \Pitch\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Pitched; p. pr. & vb. n.
Pitching.] [See Pitch, n.]
1. To cover over or smear with pitch. --Gen. vi. 14.
2. Fig.: To darken; to blacken; to obscure.
The welkin pitched with sullen could. --Addison.
Based on Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
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Pitching : \Pitch"ing\, n.
1. The act of throwing or casting; a cast; a pitch; as, wild
pitching in baseball.
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.
Based on Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
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