Burgundy pitch

English

Noun

Burgundy pitch (usually uncountable, plural Burgundy pitches)

1. A yellowish-brown resinous substance prepared from the exudation of the Norway spruce by melting in hot water and straining through cloth. It was formerly used in medicinal plasters.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “Burgundy pitch”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)