Defn: To pitch or throw with, or as with, a pitchfork.
He has been pitchforked into the footguards. G. A. Sala.
PITCHINESS
Pitch"i*ness, n. Etym: [From Pitchy.]
Defn: Blackness, as of pitch; darkness.
PITCHING
Pitch"ing, n.
1. The act of throwing or casting; a cast; a pitch; as, wild pitching in baseball.
2. The rough paving of a street to a grade with blocks of stone. Mayhew.
3. (Hydraul. Eng.)
Defn: A facing of stone laid upon a bank to prevent wear by tides or currents. Pitching piece (Carp.), the horizontal timber supporting the floor of a platform of a stairway, and against which the stringpieces of the sloping parts are supported.
PITCH-ORE
Pitch"-ore`, n. (Min.)
Defn: Pitchblende.