pitch
A sticky, gummy substance secreted by trees; tree sap.
Noun 4 meanings
A sticky, gummy substance secreted by trees; tree sap.
“It is hard to get this pitch off my hand.”
A dark, extremely viscous material still remaining after distilling crude oil or natural tar.
“Near-synonyms: tar, coal tar, asphalt, bitumen”
Pitchstone.
A throw; a toss; a cast, as of something from the hand.
“a good pitch in quoits”
Verb 4 meanings
To cover or smear with pitch.
To darken; to blacken; to obscure.
“1704 (published), year written unknown, John Dryden, On the Death of Amyntas Soon he found / The welkin pitch'd with sullen clouds.”
To throw.
“He pitched the horseshoe.”
To throw (the ball) toward a batter at home plate.
“The hurler pitched a curveball.”
Adjective 2 meanings
Very dark black; pitch-black.
“For quotations using this term, see Citations:pitch.”
Intense, deep, dark.
Etymology
From Middle English picche, piche, pich, from Old English piċ, from Proto-West Germanic *pik, from Latin pix. Cognate with Ancient Greek πίσσα (píssa, “pitch, tar”), Latin pīnus (“pine”). More at pine.
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PITCH at a glance
PITCH has 5 letters and scores 12 points in Scrabble (P 3 + I 1 + T 1 + C 3 + H 4) and 13 in Words With Friends, before board bonuses. It ranks #3,376 by how often it appears in everyday English. It is valid in ENABLE, NWL2023, Collins/SOWPODS.
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