To pierce with a sharp point; divide with something sharp and pointed; transfix.To thrust into the ground, as a stake or pointed peg; hence, to plant or fix; set up; place: as, to pitch a tent or a camp; to pitch the wickets in cricket.To fix or set in order; array; arrange; set.To fix, as a rate, value, or price; rate; class;To fling or throw; hurl; toss: as, to pitch a pike or a dart; to pitch a ball or a penny.Specifically, in base-ball, to serve (the ball) to the batter. See base-ball.In music, to determine or set the key (tonality) or key-note of; fix the relative shrillness or height of; start or set (a piece) by sounding the key-note or first tone: as. to pitch a tune high.To pave roughly; face with stones.In certain card-games, to lead one of (a certain suit), thereby selecting it as trump.To fix a tent or temporary habitation; encamp.To come to rest; settle down; sit-down; alight.To fix or decide: with on or upon.To plunge or fall headlong.Nautical, to plunge with alternate fall and rise of bow and stern, as a ship passing over waves. The motion is most marked when running into a head sea.To throw, toss, or hurl a missile or other object; throw a ball; specifically, in games of ball, to fill the position of pitcher; serve the ball to the batsman.To buck; jump from the ground with the legs bunched together, as a mustang or mule. Sportsman's Gazetteer. See cut under buck.n. The highest point or reach; height; acme.n. Height (or depth) in general; point or degree of elevation (or of depth); degree; point.n. In acoustics and music:n. That characteristie of a sound or a tone which depends upon the relative rapidity of the vibrations by which it is produced, a relatively acute or high pitch resulting from rapid vibrations, and a relatively grave or low pitch from slow vibrations.n. A particular tonal standard or example with which given tones may be compared in respect to their relative height: as, concert pitch; French pitch.n. Specificallyn. The height to which a hawk rises in the air when waiting for game to be flushed, or before stooping on its prey.n. Stature; height.n. Inclination; angle to the horizon.n. In mech.:n. The distance between the centers of two adjacent teeth in a cog-wheel, measured on the pitch-line, which is concentric with the axis of revolution, and at such a distance from the base of the teeth as to have an equal rate of motion with a similar line in the cog-wheel with which it engages.n. The distance between the medial lines of any two successive convolutions or threads of a screw, measured in a direction parallel to the axis: the pitch of a propeller-screw is the length measured along the axis of a complete turn.n. The distance between the paddles of a steamship, measured on the circle which passes through their centers.n. The distance between the stays of marine and other steam-boilers.n. The distance from center to center of rivets.n. The rake of saw-teeth (see rake).n. A throw; a toss; the act by which something is thrown or hurled from one or at something.n. A place on which to pitch or set up a booth or stand for the sale or exhibition of something; a stand.n. In card-playing, the game all-fours or seven-up played without begging, and with the trump made by leading (pitching) one of a selected suit, instead of being turned up after dealing.n. In mining, a certain length on the course of the lode, taken by a tributor, or to work on tribute. Also called tribute-pitch.n. In floor-cloth printing, one of the guide-pins used as registering-marks, corresponding to the register-points in lithographic printing.n. In naval architecture, downward angular displacement of the hull of a vessel, measured in a longitudinal vertical plane at right angles with and on either side of a horizontal transverse axis passing through the center of flotation: a correlative of scend (which see).n. An iron crowbar with a thick square point, for making holes in the ground.n. A thick tenacious resinous substance, hard when cold, the residuum of tar after its volatile elements have been expelled: obtained also from the residues of distilled turpentine.n. The sap or crude turpentine which exudes from the bark of pines. [An improper use.]n. Bitumen: a word of indefinite meaning used to designate any kind of bituminous material, but more especially the less fluid varieties (maltha and asphaltum).To smear or cover over with pitch: as, to pitch the seams of a ship.To make pitch-dark; darken.In brewing, to add to (wort) the yeast for the purpose of setting up fermentation.To lose flesh in sickness; fall away; decline.To set out, as plants.In golf, to strike (the ball) with a lofted club so that it goes up into the air and alights with little roll.n. In textile manuf, the setting, or distance apart, of the wire teeth in card-clothing.n. In golf, a ball played with more or less loft.n. In cricket: That part of the cricket-field upon which the batting and bowling are done.n. The point at which the ball first touches the ground when bowled.n. Of the ball bowled, the distance between the bowler's wicket and the point where the ball first touches the ground; the length.n. In building, the slope, as of a roof; the angle with the horizon, generally stated in terms of the horizontal and vertical. Thus, a tin roof may have a pitch of one in twenty-four, or half an inch to a foot.n. In an electric generator or motor, the distance from the center of a pole to that of the next pole of opposite sign, measured along the pitch-line.n. The memory of such precise pitch, or the power to reproduce it at will. A person with the sense of absolute pitch can name tones correctly upon hearing them, even in fortuitous or distracting relations; can produce particular tones with the voice without help from instruments or other artificial reference; and can even give tones at correct pitch while incorrect tones are being sounded. The capacity or faculty of noting absolute pitch seems to vary in different persons, but it can be greatly cultivated by attention and practice. Many otherwise good musicians lack it, while some who are not specially musical have it. It is often notable in the case of the blind.