Meaning of PITCHING
| Pronunciation: | | 'piching
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- [n] abrupt up-and-down motion (as caused by a ship or other conveyance); "the pitching and tossing was quite exciting"
- [n] playing the position of pitcher on a baseball team
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| | Synonyms: | | lurch, pitch |
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| | See Also: | | ball, baseball, baseball game, careen, motility, motion, move, movement, playing, rock, sway, tilt | |
| Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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| | Definition: | | \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.
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| | Related Terms: | | 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 |
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