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.

2. Fig.: To darken; to blacken; to obscure.

The welkin pitched with sullen could. --Addison.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Pitching \Pitch"ing\, n.

1. The act of throwing or casting; a cast; a pitch; as, wild pitching in baseball.

2. The rough paving of a street to a grade with blocks of stone. --Mayhew.

3. (Hydraul. Eng.) A facing of stone laid upon a bank to prevent wear by tides or currents.

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.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)