Definition of Pitchings

1. pitching [n] - See also: pitching

Lexicographical Neighbors of Pitchings

pitchfork
pitchforked
pitchforking
pitchforklike
pitchforks
pitchier
pitchiest
pitchily
pitchiness
pitching
pitching a tent
pitching change
pitching coach
pitching wedge
pitching wedges
pitchings (current term)
pitchless
pitchlike
pitchman
pitchmen
pitchout
pitchouts
pitchpenny
pitchpole
pitchpoled
pitchpoles
pitchpoling
pitchside
pitchstone
pitcht

Literary usage of Pitchings

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Horological Journal: The Special Organ of the British Horological Institute by British Horological Federation, British Horological Institute (1860)
"The perfection of pitchings is a part so essential in machines, particularly in those which measure time, such as clocks and watches, that too much care and ..."

2. Reports of Cases Heard and Determined by the Lord Chancellor, and the Court by John Peter De Gex, Steuart Macnaghten, Alexander Gordon, Great Britain Court of Chancery, Jonathan Cogswell Perkins (1872)
"... were entitled to sink and lay down pipes, and in a careful and workmanlike manner, doing as little damage as might be, to break up the soil, pitchings, ..."

3. The Library of Agricultural and Horticultural Knowledge: With an Appendix on by John Baxter (1830)
"It is a most troublesome weed in gravel walks, stone pitchings, and in gardens. A liberal dressing of common salt will destroy it on stone ..."

4. The Clock Jobber's Handybook: A Practical Manual on Cleaning, Repairing by Paul Nooncree Hasluck (1889)
"We have traced how the motion of the descending weight is transmitted through a variety of pitchings to the levers or pallets h and i, which project from ..."

5. The Red Badge of Courage: An Episode of the American Civil War by Stephen Crane (1900)
"The shoes displayed the mud or dust, of marches and bits of rounded trousers, protruding from the blankets, showed rents and tears from hurried pitchings ..."

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