'Pitch and pay' definitions:

Definition of 'Pitch and pay'

From: GCIDE
  • Pitch \Pitch\, v. i.
  • 1. To fix or place a tent or temporary habitation; to encamp. "Laban with his brethren pitched in the Mount of Gilead." --Gen. xxxi. 25. [1913 Webster]
  • 2. To light; to settle; to come to rest from flight. [1913 Webster]
  • The tree whereon they [the bees] pitch. --Mortimer. [1913 Webster]
  • 3. To fix one's choise; -- with on or upon. [1913 Webster]
  • Pitch upon the best course of life, and custom will render it the more easy. --Tillotson. [1913 Webster]
  • 4. To plunge or fall; esp., to fall forward; to decline or slope; as, to pitch from a precipice; the vessel pitches in a heavy sea; the field pitches toward the east. [1913 Webster]
  • Pitch and pay, an old aphorism which inculcates ready-money payment, or payment on delivery of goods. --Shak. [1913 Webster]