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pitching

  1. present participle and gerund of pitch
    As the pilot fought the hijackers for control the aeroplane was pitching wildly.

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pitching (countable and uncountable, plural pitchings)

  1. The act of throwing or casting.
    wild pitching in baseball
  2. The rough paving of a street to a grade with blocks of stone.
    • c. 1874, Henry Mayhew, London Characters:
      All this testifies to that yearning for green fields and rural sports which a life amidst bricks, pavements and pitching-stones
  3. (engineering) A facing of stone laid upon a bank to prevent wear by tides or currents.

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