5. To set or fix, as a price or value. [Obs.] Shak. Pitched battle, a general battle; a battle in which the hostile forces have fixed positions; — in distinction from a skirmish. — To pitch into, to attack; to assault; to abuse. [Slang]
PITCH
Pitch, v. i.
1. To fix or place a tent or temporary habitation; to encamp. "Laban with his brethren pitched in the Mount of Gilead." Gen. xxxi. 25.
2. To light; to settle; to come to rest from flight. The tree whereon they [the bees] pitch. Mortimer.
3. To fix one's choise; — with on or upon. Pitch upon the best course of life, and custom will render it the more easy. Tillotson.
4. To plunge or fall; esp., to fall forward; to decline or slope; as, to pitch from a precipice; the vessel pitches in a heavy sea; the field pitches toward the east. Pitch and pay, an old aphorism which inculcates ready-money payment, or payment on delivery of goods. Shak.
PITCH
Pitch, n.
1. A throw; a toss; a cast, as of something from the hand; as, a good pitch in quoits. Pitch and toss, a game played by tossing up a coin, and calling "Heads or tails;" hence: To play pitch and toss with (anything), to be careless or trust to luck about it. "To play pitch and toss with the property of the country." G. Eliot. — Pitch farthing. See Chuck farthing, under 5th Chuck.
2. (Cricket)
Defn: That point of the ground on which the ball pitches or lights when bowled.