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Definition of Pitching

1. Noun. (baseball) playing the position of pitcher on a baseball team.

2. Noun. Abrupt up-and-down motion (as caused by a ship or other conveyance). "The pitching and tossing was quite exciting"

Definition of Pitching

1. n. The act of throwing or casting; a cast; a pitch; as, wild pitching in baseball.

Definition of Pitching

1. Verb. (present participle of pitch) ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Pitching

1. pitch [v] - See also: pitch

Medical Definition of Pitching

1. 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. 3. A facing of stone laid upon a bank to prevent wear by tides or currents. Pitching piece, the horizontal timber supporting the floor of a platform of a stairway, and against which the stringpieces of the sloping parts are supported. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Pitching

pitchers pitchersful pitches pitches a tent pitchfest pitchfests pitchfork pitchforked pitchforking pitchforklike

pitchforks pitchier pitchiest pitchily pitchiness pitching (current term) pitching a tent pitching change pitching coach pitching wedge

pitching wedges pitchings pitchless pitchlike pitchman pitchmen pitchout pitchouts pitchpenny pitchpole

Literary usage of Pitching

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Dictionary of Obsolete and Provincial English: Containing Words from the by Thomas Wright (1904)
"pitching-PENCE, ». Pence paid in fairs and markets for every bag of corn. pitching-PRONG, ». A pitchfork. ..."

2. Indian Storage Reservoirs with Earthen Dams: Being a Practical Treatise on by William Lumisden Strange (1913)
"In Appendix 21 are given tables for the estimation of the pitching of a dam ... The Laying of pitching.—The most economical form of efficient pitching ..."

3. United States Supreme Court Reports by Lawyers Co-operative Publishing Company, United States Supreme Court (1885)
"The contention of the appellant is, that the assignment of December 11, 1875, by the Barrel pitching Machine Company to Holbeck, Smith and Comegys was not ..."

4. Military Geology and Topography: A Presentation of Certain Phases of Geology by Herbert Ernest Gregory (1918)
"A pitching anticline, beveled by erosion, outcrops in a parabola-shaped curve ... A pitching syncline similarly eroded forms a curving outcrop which points ..."

5. A Manual of Naval Architecture for Use of Officers of the Royal Navy by William Henry White (1900)
"pitching and 'Scending.— The longitudinal oscillations of pitching and 'scending experienced by ships among waves must be briefly considered before ..."

6. River and Canal Engineering: The Characteristics of Open Flowing Streams by Edward Skelton Bellasis (1913)
"For pitching of the sides, monolithic concrete is not very suitable, because it may ... 13, page 65, is sometimes dispensed with, the pitching being merely ..."

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