pitching
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English[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
Verb[edit]
pitching
- present participle and gerund of pitch
- As the pilot fought the hijackers for control the aeroplane was pitching wildly.
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Noun[edit]
pitching (countable and uncountable, plural pitchings)
- The act of throwing or casting.
- wild pitching in baseball
- The rough paving of a street to a grade with blocks of stone.
- c. 1874, Henry Mayhew, London Characters:
- All this testifies to that yearning for green fields and rural sports which a life amidst bricks, pavements and pitching-stones
- (engineering) A facing of stone laid upon a bank to prevent wear by tides or currents.
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References[edit]
- “pitching”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.