Pitch

It is hard to get this pitch off my hand.

Near-synonyms: tar, coal tar, asphalt, bitumen

They put pitch on the mast to protect it.

The barrel was sealed with pitch.

It was pitch black because there was no moon.

“Make thee an ark of gopher wood; rooms shalt thou make in the ark, and shalt pitch it within and without with pitch.”

1704 (published), year written unknown, John Dryden, On the Death of Amyntas Soon he found / The welkin pitch'd with sullen clouds.

For quotations using this term, see Citations:pitch.

Then I got back here - difficulty again: no trolly-bus, and and black pitcher than black - and have since been conning the Beveridge Report.

If you lose even once, that's it: The screen goes, like, the pitchest black ever, and you're [out].

For some of us postpartum depression is the pitchest black we have ever known. From the dark womb we welcome new life, and our own new life, a life we haven't known, unfolds[…]

a good pitch in quoits

The pitch was low and inside.

The teams met on the pitch.

“The two men of Alltraighe maintain, Two chiefs of the plain of Kerry, A clan the most active in pitch of battle, Their chiefs are O’Neide and Clan Conary.”

Every other day they would spend half of the training hours on the battle pitch.

George’s cult was popular in the east because of his legendary feats on the battle pitch and because of the location of his tomb, which was a pilgrimage site.

He gave me a sales pitch.

The pitch of pixels on the point scale is 72 pixels per inch.

The pitch of this saw is perfect for that type of wood.

A helical scan with a pitch of zero is equivalent to constant z-axis scanning.

the pitch of the roof or haystack

the pitch of an aircraft

The propeller blades' pitch went to 90° as the engine was feathered.

Another reason is that the prostitute who makes her pitch at Marble Arch stands a chance of being picked up by an out-of-town business man stopping at one of the hotels in the vicinity, and of being treated to a steak dinner […]

He lived at a time when learning was at its highest pitch.

But, except the mind be disordered by disease or madness, they never can arrive at such a pitch of vivacity

In the eyes of Mr. Farquhar Fenelon Cooke the apotheosis of the Celebrity was complete. The people of Asquith were not only willing to attend the house-warming, but had been worked up to the pitch of eagerness.

In this poem his 'vernacular' bluster and garish misrhymes build to a pitch of rowdy anarchy […]

Driven headlong from the pitch of heaven, down / Into this deep.

From the pitch of Cape-Fraward, to the pitch of Cape-Holland, the Streight lies in the Channel West and by North, nearest, and is distant full five Leagues;

Such breadth of ſhoulders as might mainely beare Olde Atlas burthen, twixt his manly pitch, A pearle more worth, then all the world is plaſte:

Alba the emperor was crook-backed, Epictetus lame; that great Alexander a little man of stature, Augustus Cæsar of the same pitch […].

So like in person, garb, and pitch, 'Twas hard t' interpret which was which

Enterprises of great pitch and moment.

The line turns a sharp right-angle to the north to circumvent the town, and then plunges straight into the 1 in 50, which lasts for nearly 20 miles with few intermissions, and some pitches of 1 in 40.

You lead "through" instead — your companion leads a pitch, then you join him. But instead of swapping over at the ice axe belay, you carry on in the lead, cutting or kicking steps until you are about twenty feet above.

The entrance pitch requires 30 metres of rope.

a steep pitch in the road

the pitch of a roof

He pitched the horseshoe.

The hurler pitched a curveball.

He pitched high and inside.

Bob pitches today.

He pitched the candy wrapper.

He pitched the idea for months with no takers.

At which level should I pitch my presentation?

Pitch the tent over there.

Why not, when it was clearly now possible to pitch your tent well beyond whatever expert consensus considered reasonable and be lionised instead of punished [...]

Laban with his brethren pitched in the Mount of Gilead.

The typhoon pitched the deck of the ship.

The airplane pitched.

His bone leg steadied in that hole ; one arm elevated, and holding by a shroud ; Captain Ahab stood erect, looking straight out beyond the ship's ever-pitching prow.

Half a dozen deserted boats pitched aimlessly upon the confusion of the waves.

Driveway cross slopes along Owyhee Street in Boise reach nearly 9%, which could cause a person in a wheelchair or using another mobility device to be pitched into the street. The cross slope should be no greater than 2% in order to prevent this.

The only way to get on the green from here is to pitch the ball over the bunker.

The ball pitched well short of the batsman.

the tree whereon they [the bees] pitch

Pitch upon the best course of life, and custom will render it the more easy.

"'Tis very unlucky that we didn't pitch on a sound one, when there were so many more of 'em!"

to pitch from a precipice

The field pitches toward the east.

[…]pitch the road with hard stones [rather] than to break them up for a road covering

Whose vultur thought doth pitch the price so hie, That she will draw his lips rich treasure drie.

They pitched at the waters of Merom. These waters of Merom are generally thought to be nothing but the lake of Semechon,[…]

“Vy don’t you pitch into her Sarah?” exclaims one half-dressed matron by way of encouragement.

Yet I sometimes long to pitch at him for daring to lift his eyes this way; I always feel the blood tingling at my finger’s end whenever he crosses my path.

On the seventh day after the two armies were pitched against each other in the plain before Aphek the battle was joined, the Syrians were routed, and a hundred thousand of their foot-men were slain in one day.

The Philistines, hearing that Israel were assembled at Mizpeh, raised an army and pitched against them.

He would pitch into her, and pitch into himself, and then he would dwell on her good qualities, […]

If Spain was to fight in the Americas, for example, the Royal Navy could pitch against it over 300 ships in the seventies (Morris 2011:13-32), deployed in various parts of the world.

except for the cell growth which is higher for the yeast pitched with lower vitality

five pitching rates were applied to lab-scale fermentations to investigate its impact on the yeast

Since yeast propagation is time and resource intensive, it is customary to serially re-pitch yeast

The pitch of middle "C" is familiar to many musicians.

Hertzian waves are not caused by vibrations of the ponderable matter of the brass balls, the form of which only determines the pitch.

Are we in baroque pitch for this one?

Bob, our pitch, let out a clear middle "C" and our conductor gave the signal to start.

[…] now the orchestra is playing yellow cocktail music and the opera of voices pitches a key higher.

His "hello" was enough to recognize his voice by. I pitched mine low so he wouldn't know it.

I record voice messages in Russian, with my voice pitched to a sexy-baby timbre and a heavy American accent.