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English
Pronunciation
Verb
pitching
- present participle and gerund of pitch
As the pilot fought the hijackers for control the aeroplane was pitching wildly.
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Noun
pitching (countable and uncountable, plural pitchings)
- The act of throwing or casting.
wild pitching in baseball
- 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
- (engineering) A facing of stone laid upon a bank to prevent wear by tides or currents.
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