What is "pitchings"

Usage examples of "pitchings".

Slowly, with great pitchings and shudders, a massive wall of water rose out of the ocean.

Sol Weintraub’s voice was slow, careful in phrase and precise in wording, and before long the gentle cadence of his story blended with the soft rumble and slow pitchings of the windwagon’s progress north.

The shoes displayed the mud or dust of marches and bits of rounded trousers, protruding from the blankets, showed rents and tears from hurried pitchings through the dense brambles.