A sticky, gummy substance secreted by trees; sap.
It is hard to get this pitch off my hand.
A throw; a toss; a cast, as of something from the hand.
a good pitch in quoits
The perceived frequency of a sound, note or electromagnetic wave.
The pitch of middle "C" is familiar to many musicians.
To cover or smear with pitch.
“Make thee an ark of gopher wood; rooms shalt thou make in the ark, and shalt pitch it within and without with pitch.”
To throw.
From Middle English picchen, pycchen (“to thrust in, fasten, settle”), from Old English *piċċan, from Proto-West Germanic *pikkijan, a variant of Proto-West Germanic *pikkōn (“to pick, peck”), whence ...
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He pitched the horseshoe.
To produce a note of a given pitch.
[…] now the orchestra is playing yellow cocktail music and the opera of voices pitches a key higher.