Lexicographical Neighbors of Pitchings
Literary usage of Pitchings
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Horological Journal: The Special Organ of the British Horological Institute by British Horological Federation, British Horological Institute (1860)
"The perfection of pitchings is a part so essential in machines, particularly in
those which measure time, such as clocks and watches, that too much care and ..."
2. Reports of Cases Heard and Determined by the Lord Chancellor, and the Court by John Peter De Gex, Steuart Macnaghten, Alexander Gordon, Great Britain Court of Chancery, Jonathan Cogswell Perkins (1872)
"... were entitled to sink and lay down pipes, and in a careful and workmanlike
manner, doing as little damage as might be, to break up the soil, pitchings, ..."
3. The Library of Agricultural and Horticultural Knowledge: With an Appendix on by John Baxter (1830)
"It is a most troublesome weed in gravel walks, stone pitchings, and in gardens.
A liberal dressing of common salt will destroy it on stone ..."
4. The Clock Jobber's Handybook: A Practical Manual on Cleaning, Repairing by Paul Nooncree Hasluck (1889)
"We have traced how the motion of the descending weight is transmitted through a
variety of pitchings to the levers or pallets h and i, which project from ..."
5. The Red Badge of Courage: An Episode of the American Civil War by Stephen Crane (1900)
"The shoes displayed the mud or dust, of marches and bits of rounded trousers,
protruding from the blankets, showed rents and tears from hurried pitchings ..."
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