'Pitching' definitions:

Definition of 'pitching'

From: WordNet
noun
(baseball) playing the position of pitcher on a baseball team
noun
Abrupt up-and-down motion (as caused by a ship or other conveyance); "the pitching and tossing was quite exciting" [syn: lurch, pitch, pitching]

Definition of 'Pitching'

From: GCIDE
  • Pitch \Pitch\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Pitched; p. pr. & vb. n. Pitching.] [See Pitch, n.]
  • 1. To cover over or smear with pitch. --Gen. vi. 14. [1913 Webster]
  • 2. Fig.: To darken; to blacken; to obscure. [1913 Webster]
  • The welkin pitched with sullen could. --Addison. [1913 Webster]

Definition of 'Pitching'

From: GCIDE
  • Pitching \Pitch"ing\, n.
  • 1. The act of throwing or casting; a cast; a pitch; as, wild pitching in baseball. [1913 Webster]
  • 2. The rough paving of a street to a grade with blocks of stone. --Mayhew. [1913 Webster]
  • 3. (Hydraul. Eng.) A facing of stone laid upon a bank to prevent wear by tides or currents. [1913 Webster]
  • Pitching piece (Carp.), the horizontal timber supporting the floor of a platform of a stairway, and against which the stringpieces of the sloping parts are supported. [1913 Webster]