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Pitching   /pˈɪtʃɪŋ/   Listen
Pitching

noun
1.
(baseball) playing the position of pitcher on a baseball team.
2.
Abrupt up-and-down motion (as caused by a ship or other conveyance).  Synonyms: lurch, pitch.


Pitch

verb
(past & past part. pitched; pres. part. pitching)
1.
Throw or toss with a light motion.  Synonyms: flip, sky, toss.  "Toss me newspaper"
2.
Move abruptly.  Synonyms: lurch, shift.
3.
Fall or plunge forward.
4.
Set to a certain pitch.
5.
Sell or offer for sale from place to place.  Synonyms: hawk, huckster, monger, peddle, vend.
6.
Be at an angle.  Synonyms: incline, slope.
7.
Heel over.  Synonyms: cant, cant over, slant, tilt.  "The ceiling is slanting"
8.
Erect and fasten.  Synonym: set up.
9.
Throw or hurl from the mound to the batter, as in baseball.  Synonym: deliver.
10.
Hit (a golf ball) in a high arc with a backspin.
11.
Lead (a card) and establish the trump suit.
12.
Set the level or character of.  Synonym: gear.



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"Pitching" Quotes from Famous Books



... great deal better, but still have to take care. I have got quite a lot of Victor Hugo done; and not I think so badly: pitching into this work has straightened me up a good deal. It is the devil's own weather but that is a trifle. I must know when Cornhill must see it. I can send some of it in a week easily, but I still have to read The Laughing Man,[13] and ...
— The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 23 (of 25) • Robert Louis Stevenson
... Larry told me last spring when he was pitching into me about—well about something. I don't know why I do, Uncle Phil, honest I don't. Maybe it is because I hate college so and all the stale old stuff they try to cram down our throats. I get so mad and sick and disgusted with the whole thing ...
— Wild Wings - A Romance of Youth • Margaret Rebecca Piper
... "You wouldn't call it pitching hay or shoeing a hoss that I'm doing, I guess," said the old fellow crossly. "I'm fussing at building a barn, but a fine chance I got. I get all my timber ...
— Bull Hunter • Max Brand
... more than ever astounded, suddenly found himself pitching forward in the air and slamming on the ice. He slid along it for a hundred feet or more on his stomach, like a rocket with a wake of spray and slush for a tail. Reddy was soaked as completely as if he had fallen into a bath-tub, and his face and ...
— The Dozen from Lakerim • Rupert Hughes
... of perfection, and teetotallers are estimable men, but the paid platform advocate of teetotalism is never a very attractive personality. This tendency to shout, and thump the table, and work up the agony—this eternal pitching of the voice to the scream that will terrify the groundlings, appal the sinner, and bring down the house—all these things produce a style of oratory which is about as disagreeable as anything in the shape of oratory can be. ...
— Sketches In The House (1893) • T. P. O'Connor


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