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n. - The distance between symmetrically arranged or corresponding parts of an armature, measured along a line, called the pitch line, drawn around its length. Sometimes half of this distance is called the pitch. ²
n. - A thick, black, lustrous, and sticky substance obtained by boiling down tar. It is used in calking the seams of ships; also in coating rope, canvas, wood, ironwork, etc., to preserve them. ²
n. - See Pitchstone. ²
n. - To cover over or smear with pitch. ²
n. - Fig.: To darken; to blacken; to obscure. ²
v. t. - To throw, generally with a definite aim or purpose; to cast; to hurl; to toss; as, to pitch quoits; to pitch hay; to pitch a ball. ²
v. t. - To thrust or plant in the ground, as stakes or poles; hence, to fix firmly, as by means of poles; to establish; to arrange; as, to pitch a tent; to pitch a camp. ²
v. t. - To set, face, or pave with rubble or undressed stones, as an embankment or a roadway. ²
v. t. - To fix or set the tone of; as, to pitch a tune. ²
v. t. - To set or fix, as a price or value. ²
v. i. - To fix or place a tent or temporary habitation; to encamp. ²
v. i. - To light; to settle; to come to rest from flight. ²
v. i. - To fix one's choise; -- with on or upon. ²
v. i. - 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. ²
n. - A throw; a toss; a cast, as of something from the hand; as, a good pitch in quoits. ²
n. - That point of the ground on which the ball pitches or lights when bowled. ²
n. - A point or peak; the extreme point or degree of elevation or depression; hence, a limit or bound. ²
n. - Height; stature. ²
n. - A descent; a fall; a thrusting down. ²
n. - The point where a declivity begins; hence, the declivity itself; a descending slope; the degree or rate of descent or slope; slant; as, a steep pitch in the road; the pitch of a roof. ²
n. - The relative acuteness or gravity of a tone, determined by the number of vibrations which produce it; the place of any tone upon a scale of high and low. ²
n. - The limit of ground set to a miner who receives a share of the ore taken out. ²
n. - The distance from center to center of any two adjacent teeth of gearing, measured on the pitch line; -- called also circular pitch. ²
n. - The length, measured along the axis, of a complete turn of the thread of a screw, or of the helical lines of the blades of a screw propeller. ²
n. - The distance between the centers of holes, as of rivet holes in boiler plates. ²

The word "pitch" uses 5 letters: C H I P T.

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Words formed by adding one letter before or after pitch (in bold), or to chipt in any order:
a -   haptic   phatic   o -   photic   y -   pitchy  

Shorter words found within pitch:
chi   chip   chit   hi   hic   hip   hit   ich   it   itch   phi   pht   pi   pic   pit   pith   ti   tic   tip  

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