Crossword clues for pitching
pitching
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Pitch \Pitch\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Pitched; p. pr. & vb. n. Pitching.] [See Pitch, n.]
To cover over or smear with pitch.
--Gen. vi. 14.-
Fig.: To darken; to blacken; to obscure.
The welkin pitched with sullen could.
--Addison.
Pitching \Pitch"ing\, n.
The act of throwing or casting; a cast; a pitch; as, wild pitching in baseball.
The rough paving of a street to a grade with blocks of stone.
--Mayhew.-
(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.
Wiktionary
n. 1 The act of throwing or casting. 2 The rough paving of a street to a grade with blocks of stone. 3 (context engineering English) A facing of stone laid upon a bank to prevent wear by tides or currents. vb. (present participle of pitch English)
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Usage examples of "pitching".
In the sudden brightness he saw Abraxas, first screaming in terror as the ocean rushed toward him, then pitching with the force of the water.
Pitching your tent An example of continuity between the headline and the body copy is an advertisement for a line of tents sold by the Boy Scouts of America.
Accordingly Barnaby, seeing that it was required of him to quit the place in which he then lay, arose, though with a good deal of effort, and permitted the negro to help him on with his coat, though feeling mightily dizzy and much put about to keep upon his legs--his head beating fit to split asunder and the vessel rolling and pitching at a great rate, as though upon a heavy cross-sea.
The last two scouts worked at pitching their bedrolls and bivvy sacks in the shadowline of the trees.
Before moonrise, the other mule stumbled into a dry arroyo, pitching Buglet over its head.
Yevil, as the Domina wavered and fell forward, the binders around her ankles pitching her facedown onto the floor.
Lord Dullen on top, wearing his two-brimmed pitching hat, the Blood-bird insignia bright on his black mask.
The ekka followed, the pony loping to keep up, and if Jannath did not grow seasick from the pitching it must have been because he had been a sailor in a recent incarnation.
It was on Drumm Street, within pitching distance of the Hyatt Regency and the moribund Embarcadero Freeway, and I had been occupying it just about as long as I had known Kerry.
At the same instant, Fastball broke hard to the left again, kicking in the afterburners and pitching the Tomcat into an almost vertical climb.
He sprang to his feet and saw to starboard, and not a hundred yards from their heeling, pitching boat, a vast iron bulk like the blade of a plough tearing through the water, tossing it on either side in huge waves of foam that leaped towards the steamer, flinging her paddles helplessly in the air, and then sucking her deck down almost to the waterline.
Caught in the act of pitching his latest victim over the stern, Fent Aranson whirled around to confront his discoverer.
The odds depend on who is pitching and who is hitting, of course, but they also depend on the minute events within the event.
The Israeli wingman was pitching back into the fight when Johar stuffed a missile up his exhaust nozzle.
Never gave the enraptured air - There was a rustling, seemed like a bustling Of merry crowds justling at pitching and hustling, Small feet were pattering, wooden shoes clattering, Little hands clapping and little tongues chattering, And, like fowls in a farm-yard when the barley is scattering, Out came the children running.