Pitch

pich, n. A point or peak; degree of elevation or depre ion. (JIus.) Degree of elevation of the voice, of an instrument, etc. Degree; rate; position; point where a declivity begins; the declivity itself: descent; slope. (Mech.) The distance from center to center of any 2 adjacent teeth of gearing, A measured on the pitch-line; distance measured on a line parallel to the axis, between 2 adjacent threads or convolutions of a screw; distance between the centers of holes, as of rivet-holes in boiler plates. — v. t. To throw, hurl, to ; to fix firmly, plant, set in array. (JIus.) To fix or set the tone of. — v. i. to To light, settle; to fall headlong; to fall, fix choice; to encamp. (Navt.) To rise and fall, as the head and stern of a ship. — Pitch line, or; p. circle. A circle concentric with the circumference of a toothed wheel, and cutting its teeth at such a distance n. from their points as to touch the corresponding circle of the gear work at ing with it. — P. of a roof. (Arch.) The inclination or slope of the sides. — P. of a saw. The slope of the face of the teeth. — Pitched battle. A battle in which the hostile forces have taken up a firm position, — disting. fr. a skirmish. — Pitchier,?;. One ADB, Roman of who, etc.; esp., in games of ball, who pitch; ACB, or pitches the ball for the batsman to Grecian pitch; strike at. — Pitch'fork, n. A farming ■*■££• G°^ implement used in pitching hay, Elizabethtn ' a. sheaves of grain, etc.. into wagons, etc. — Pitch'-farth'ing, n. A play in which coins are pitched into a hole. — pipe, n. (Mus.) An instrument for regulating the pitch of the key or leading tone of a tune.