(v): throw with force or recklessness
(v): move abruptly
(v): move so as to change position, perform a nontranslational motion
(v): fall or plunge forward
(v): move downward and lower, but not necessarily all the way
(v): set to a certain pitch
(v): put into a certain state; cause to be in a certain state
(v): sell or offer for sale from place to place
(v): do business; offer for sale as for one's livelihood
(v): be at an angle
(v): to incline or bend from a vertical position
(v): heel over
(v): move so as to change position, perform a nontranslational motion
(v): erect and fasten
(v): cause to rise up
(v): throw or hurl from the mound to the batter, as in baseball
(v): propel through the air
(v): hit (a golf ball) in a high arc with a backspin
(v): cause to move by striking
(v): lead (a card) and establish the trump suit
(v): put (a card or piece) into play during a game, or act strategically as if in a card game
(v): set the level or character of
(v): make fit for, or change to suit a new purpose
(n): the property of sound that varies with variation in the frequency of vibration
(n): an attribute of sound
(n): (baseball) the act of throwing a baseball by a pitcher to a batter
(n): the act of throwing (propelling something with a rapid movement of the arm and wrist)
(n): a vendor's position (especially on the sidewalk)
(n): the particular portion of space occupied by something
(n): promotion by means of an argument and demonstration
(n): a message issued in behalf of some product or cause or idea or person or institution
(n): degree of deviation from a horizontal plane
(n): the property possessed by a line or surface that departs from the horizontal
(n): any of various dark heavy viscid substances obtained as a residue
(n): any of various naturally occurring impure mixtures of hydrocarbons
(n): a high approach shot in golf
(n): a relatively short golf shot intended to put the ball onto the putting green
(n): an all-fours game in which the first card led is a trump
(n): card games in which points are won for taking the high or low or jack or game
(n): abrupt up-and-down motion (as caused by a ship or other conveyance)
(n): a change of position that does not entail a change of location
(n): the action or manner of throwing something
(n): the act of throwing (propelling something with a rapid movement of the arm and wrist)
"'There's one place where that Dalrymple chap talks even on for two pages, and never lets the girl get a word in edgewise. If he'd done that in real life she'd have pitched him.'"
-Mr. Harrison in Anne of the Island
What time is it? What time is it?
This dark corridor shrouded in thought
Cannot resist the night coachman . . .
The telephone rings, rings again, nervously—
What time is it? What time is it?
God, this sudden early-morning rain
Attacks like an endless torrent of pitch.
- Galaktion Tabidze, 'What Time Is It?' translated from the Georgian by Adam J. Sorkin and Nana Bukhradze
A playing surface for the game of cricket.
Depend upon it, child, I’ll never control your choice; but Mr. Marlow whom I have pitched upon, is the son of my old friend, Sir Charles Marlow, of whom you have heard me talk so often.
Goldsmith, She Stoops, I