pitching yeast (pic hing yest)

In brewing: ( a ) Yeast obtained from fermentation of beer, and intended for use in pitching worts. ( b ) Yeast which has been prepared for pitching worts by washing it with pure cold water in the stuff-vat, and allowing it to stand covered in the vat in a cool place for a day or longer. pitch-kettle (pich'ket"l), n. Same as pitch - pot. pitchkettled (pich'ket"ld), a. [ Thus, the preliminaries settled, I fairly find myself pitchkettled , And cannot see, though few see better, How I shall hammer out a letter. 4516 4. In zoöl., dark-brown inclining toward black; piceous. pit-coal (pit'kōl), n. Mineral coal, or coal obtained from mines or pits: distinguished from charcoal. [Great Britain.] Divers... of the prime Lords of the Court have got the sole Patent of making all Sorts of Gla with Pit -coal. Howell , Letters, I. i. 2. pit-cock (pit'kok), n . Same as pet - cock . E. H. Knight . pit-crater (pit'krāter), n . A volcanic crater at the bottom of a pit or gulf. The old cone had, like Mt. Loa or the Maui volcano, a great pit - crater at top. Amer. Jour. Sci ., 3d ser., XXXII. 251.