pitching : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: pitching	by the DICT Development Group
3 results for pitching
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
pitching n (baseball) playing the position of pitcher on a baseball team abrupt up-and-down motion (as caused by a ship or other conveyance); "the pitching and tossing was quite exciting" Synonym(s): lurch, pitch, pitching
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
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. 2. Fig.: To darken; to blacken; to obscure. The welkin pitched with sullen could. --Addison.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Pitching \Pitch"ing\, n. 1. The act of throwing or casting; a cast; a pitch; as, wild pitching in baseball. 2. The rough paving of a street to a grade with blocks of stone. --Mayhew. 3. (Hydraul. Eng.) A facing of stone laid upon a bank to prevent wear by tides or currents. {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.