Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Pitch \Pitch\, n. [OE. pich, AS. pic, L. pix; akin to Gr. ?.]
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A thick, black, lustrous, and sticky substance obtained by boiling down tar. It is used in calking the seams of ships; also in coating rope, canvas, wood, ironwork, etc., to preserve them.
He that toucheth pitch shall be defiled therewith.
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(Geol.) See Pitchstone.
Amboyna pitch, the resin of Dammara australis. See Kauri.
Burgundy pitch. See under Burgundy.
Canada pitch, the resinous exudation of the hemlock tree ( Abies Canadensis); hemlock gum.
Jew's pitch, bitumen.
Mineral pitch. See Bitumen and Asphalt.
Pitch coal (Min.), bituminous coal.
Pitch peat (Min.), a black homogeneous peat, with a waxy luster.
Pitch pine (Bot.), any one of several species of pine, yielding pitch, esp. the Pinus rigida of North America.
Wiktionary
n. Any of various pine trees from which pitch can be obtain, or which have very resinous wood.
WordNet
n. large 3-needled pine of southeastern United States having very long needles and gnarled twisted limbs; bark is red-brown deeply ridged; an important timber tree [syn: longleaf pine, southern yellow pine, Georgia pine, Pinus palustris]
large 3-needled pine of the eastern United States and southeastern Canada; closely related to the pond pine [syn: northern pitch pine, Pinus rigida]
Usage examples of "pitch pine".
Instead there was a proper pitch pine floor, a bed carved from fruitwood, a dozen beeswax candles whiter than his own teeth, bed linens as crisp as autumn leaves, and nothing but stray filaments of dust buzzing around the light.
A handful of crushed bark, a few slivers of pitch pine from an old stump that I had carried with me, then a blow with flint and steel, a spark, then a small tendril of smoke, a puff or two from the lungs, and a flame.
Witches, Ruta Skadi's clan, and Reina Miti's, and half a dozen others, every single witch carrying a torch of flaring pitch pine dipped in bitumen, were streaming over the fortress from the east, from the last of the clear sky, and flying straight toward the storm.
Their summits were crowned with extensive tracts of pitch pine, checkered with small patches of the quivering aspen.
Lighting a small sliver of the pitch pine, I stepped back on the log and held it up.