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Wordnet 3.0

NOUN (2)

1. (baseball) playing the position of pitcher on a baseball team;

2. abrupt up-and-down motion (as caused by a ship or other conveyance);
- Example: "the pitching and tossing was quite exciting"
[syn: lurch, pitch, pitching]


The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Pitch \Pitch\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Pitched; p. pr. & vb. n. Pitching.] [See Pitch, n.] 1. To cover over or smear with pitch. --Gen. vi. 14. [1913 Webster] 2. Fig.: To darken; to blacken; to obscure. [1913 Webster] The welkin pitched with sullen could. --Addison. [1913 Webster]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Pitching \Pitch"ing\, n. 1. The act of throwing or casting; a cast; a pitch; as, wild pitching in baseball. [1913 Webster] 2. The rough paving of a street to a grade with blocks of stone. --Mayhew. [1913 Webster] 3. (Hydraul. Eng.) A facing of stone laid upon a bank to prevent wear by tides or currents. [1913 Webster] 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. [1913 Webster]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

pitching n 1: (baseball) playing the position of pitcher on a baseball team 2: abrupt up-and-down motion (as caused by a ship or other conveyance); "the pitching and tossing was quite exciting" [syn: lurch, pitch, pitching]
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:

37 Moby Thesaurus words for "pitching": archery, careening, casting, chucking, dangling, firing, flinging, gunnery, heaving, hurling, inclining, jaculation, leaning, lobbing, lurching, musketry, oblique, pitched, projection, reeling, rocking, rolling, shooting, skeet, skeet shooting, slinging, sloped, sloping, swaying, swinging, throwing, tilted, tilting, tipped, tossing, trajection, trapshooting