Pitch

Chamber's Etymological of the English Language · 1895 · p. 391
pich, v.t. {ht to pick or strike with a pike to throw to fix or set in array to fix the tone. — v i to settle, as something pitched to come to rest from flight to fall headlong to fix the choice to encamp to rise and fall, as a ship. —n. any point or degree of elevation or depre ion degree degree of slope a descent (was.) the height ol a note: {meek.) distance between the centres of two teeth. [A form of Pick.] m mOte mate tnOTn then. 391 n Pitcher Pitcher, pich'er, «. a ve el for holding water, . [O. Fr. picker—Low L. picarium, a goblet—Gr. bikos a wine-ve el, au Eastern word. Doublet Beaker.] PItolier-pl , pich'er-plant, «. a tropical plant, with vase-shaped leaves holding water like pitchers.
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