'Pitching' definitions:
Definition of 'pitching'
From: WordNet
Definition of 'Pitching'
From: GCIDE
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]
Synonyms of 'pitching'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- archery,
- careening,
- casting,
- chucking,
- dangling,
- firing,
- flinging,
- gunnery,
- heaving,
- hurling,
- inclining,
- jaculation,
- leaning,
- lobbing,
- lurching,
- musketry,
- oblique,
- pitched,
- projection,
- reeling,
- rocking,
- rolling,
- shooting,
- skeet,
- skeet shooting,
- slinging,
- sloped,
- sloping,
- swaying,
- swinging,
- throwing,
- tilted,
- tilting,
- tipped,
- tossing,
- trajection,
- trapshooting
Words containing 'Pitching'
- Pitch,
- Pitched,
- To pitch into,
- pitch in,
- pitch into,
- Amboyna pitch,
- Burgundy pitch,
- Canada pitch,
- Concert pitch,
- Diametral pitch,
- Earth pitch,
- Jew's pitch,
- Mineral pitch,
- Pitch and pay,
- Pitch and toss,
- Pitch chain,
- Pitch circle,
- Pitch coal,
- Pitch farthing,
- Pitch line,
- Pitch of a plane,
- Pitch of a roof,
- Pitch of poles,
- Pitch peat,
- Pitch pine,
- Pitch pipe,
- Pitch point,
- Pitched battle,
- Pitching piece,
- Radical pitch,
- Stone pitch,
- To pitch a camp,
- Tribute pitch,
- absolute pitch,
- auction pitch,
- fever pitch,
- high pitch,
- high pitched,
- international pitch,
- low pitch,
- overhand pitch,
- perfect pitch,
- philharmonic pitch,
- pitch accent,
- pitch apple,
- pitch black,
- pitch blackness,
- pitch contour,
- pitch shot,
- pitching change,
- pitching coach,
- pitching wedge,
- sales pitch,
- submarine pitch,
- wild pitch,
- Pitch-black,
- Pitch-dark,
- Pitch-faced,
- Pitch-ore,
- Tough-pitch,
- high-pitched,
- low-pitched,
- northern pitch pine,
- off-speed pitch,
- To play pitch and toss with anything,
- dust-back pitch,
- variable-pitch propeller