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Definition of Outpitch
1. to surpass in pitching [v -ED, -ING, -ES] - See also: pitching
Lexicographical Neighbors of Outpitch
Literary usage of Outpitch
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (1828)
"... and, for a while, the confusion of Babel was nothing to that which mingled
forty discordant voices, all trying to outpitch one another. ..."
2. Mass Physical Training for Use in the Army and the Reserve Officers by Joseph Edward Raycroft (1920)
"Some men who have practically no curves and not much speed can outpitch men who
have a dazzling array of "stuff." The requisites for a good pitcher are: ..."
3. College Years by Ralph Delahaye Paine, Charles Scribner's Sons, Scribner Press (1909)
"... and licking Stuyvesant's nine out of its boots. It would make him feel sadder
than anything else in the world. If I could surprise him, then outpitch ..."
4. Gems Selected from the Poems of Caroline Bowles by Caroline Bowles Southey (1836)
"... and, for a while, the confusion of Babel was nothing to that which mingled
forty discordant voices, all trying to outpitch one another. ..."
5. The History of Elsmere and Rosa: An Episode by George Colman, Solid gentleman (1817)
"Now Elsmere, who had a great mind to be both a saint and an angel at once, and
outpitch all others at the bar, took a strange thought into his head, and, ..."
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