To throw away; discard.
To fix or set the tone of.
To play baseball in the position of pitcher.
To play a short, high, lofty shot that lands with backspin.
To set or fix.
To deliver in a certain tone or style, or with a certain audience in mind.
To fix or place a tent or temporary habitation; to encamp.
To attack, or position or assemble for attack.
To darken; to blacken; to obscure.
To cover or smear with pitch.
To throw.
To promote, advertise, or attempt to sell.
To assemble or erect (a tent).
To move so that the front of an aircraft or boat goes alternatively up and down.
To bounce on the playing surface.
To settle and build up, without melting.
To discard for some gain.
To throw (the ball) toward a batter at home plate.
To fix one's choice.
To set, face, or pave with rubble or undressed stones.
To produce a note of a given pitch.
To plunge or fall; especially, to fall forward; to decline or slope.
A descent; a fall; a thrusting down.
A measure of the angle of attack of a propeller.
The angle at which an object sits.
The standard to which a group of musical instruments are tuned or in which a piece is performed, usually by reference to the frequency to which the musical note A above middle C is tuned.
In an a cappella group, the singer responsible for singing a note for the other members to tune themselves by.
An area on a campsite intended for occupation by a single tent, caravan or similar.
The degree to which a vehicle, especially a ship or aircraft, rotates on such an axis, tilting its bow or nose up or down. Compare with roll, yaw, and heave.
The field on which cricket, soccer, rugby, gridiron or field hockey is played. (In cricket, the pitch is in the centre of the field; see cricket pitch.) (Not often used in the US or Canada, where "field" is the preferred word.)
A point or peak; the extreme point of elevation or depression.
A level or degree, or (by extension), a peak or highest degree.
The most thrust-out point of a headland or cape.
The height a bird reaches in flight, especially a bird of prey preparing to swoop down on its prey.
The distance between evenly spaced objects, e.g. the teeth of a saw or gear, the turns of a screw thread, the centres of holes, or letters in a monospace font.
The act of pitching a baseball.
A sticky, gummy substance secreted by trees; sap.
The point where a declivity begins; hence, the declivity itself; a descending slope; the degree or rate of descent or slope; slant.
A throw; a toss; a cast, as of something from the hand.
The field of battle.
A section of a climb or rock face; specifically, the climbing distance between belays or stances.
That point of the ground on which the ball pitches or lights when bowled.
The perceived frequency of a sound or note.
A dark, extremely viscous material remaining in still after distilling crude oil and tar.
Pitchstone.
An effort to sell or promote something.
The limit of ground set to a miner who receives a share of the ore taken out.
A vertical cave passage, only negotiable by using rope or ladders.
The place where a busker performs, a prostitute solicits clients, or an illegal gambling game etc. is set up before the public.
An area in a market (or similar) allocated to a particular trader.
A person's or animal's height.
Prominence; importance.
To impinge upon.
To hit.
To give, as a blow; to impel, as with a blow; to give a force to; to dash; to cast.
To create an impression.
To cut off (a mortar joint, etc.) even with the face of the wall, or inward at a slight angle.
To affect by a sudden impression or impulse.
To sound by percussion, with blows, or as if with blows.
To haul down or lower (a flag, mast, etc.)
To make a sudden impression upon, as if by a blow; to affect with some strong emotion.
To balance (a ledger or account).
To dismantle and take away (a theater set; a tent; etc.).
To hit upon, or light upon, suddenly.
To cause or produce by a stroke, or suddenly, as by a stroke.
To become attached to something; said of the spat of oysters.
To stroke or pass lightly; to wave.
To act suddenly, especially in a violent or criminal way.
To impress, seem or appear (to).
To capitulate; to signal a surrender by hauling down the colours.
To level (a measure of grain, salt, etc.) with a straight instrument, scraping off what is above the level of the top.
To discover a source of something, often a buried raw material such as ore (especially gold) or crude oil.
To pass with a quick or strong effect; to dart; to penetrate.
To touch; to act by appulse.
To manufacture, as by stamping.
To make and ratify.
To deliver a quick blow or thrust; to give blows.
To cause to sound by one or more beats; to indicate or notify by audible strokes. Of a clock, to announce (an hour of the day), usually by one or more sounds.
To cause to ignite by friction.
To delete or cross out; to scratch or eliminate.
To set off on a walk or trip.
To score a goal.
To thrust in; to cause to enter or penetrate.
To punish; to afflict; to smite.
To carry out a violent or illegal action.
To unfasten, to loosen (chains, bonds, etc.).
To stop working as a protest to achieve better working conditions.
A nibble on the bait by a fish.
In an option contract, the price at which the holder buys or sells if they choose to exercise the option.
The strike plate of a door.
A cancellation postmark.
An iron pale or standard in a gate or fence.
The primary face of a hammer, opposite the peen.
An instrument with a straight edge for levelling a measure of grain, salt, etc., scraping off what is above the level of the top; a strickle.
A status resulting from a batter swinging and missing a pitch, or not swinging at a pitch when the ball goes in the strike zone, or hitting a foul ball that is not caught.
The status of being the batsman that the bowler is bowling at.
The act of knocking down all ten pins in on the first roll of a frame.
An old English measure of corn equal to the bushel.
A blow or application of physical force against something.
A work stoppage (or otherwise concerted stoppage of an activity) as a form of protest.
The compass direction of the line of intersection between a rock layer and the surface of the Earth.
The discovery of a source of something.
A puddler's stirrer.