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simple past and past participle of pitch examples
comparative more pitched, superlative most pitched
Having a slope. examples
(not comparable) Having a specified tonal range. examples
(of a battle, fight, etc) Fought at a particular place and time, at which opposing forces anticipate and commit to fighting; (later especially) involving sustained, intense military (or by extension, political, legal etc.) fighting. examples
(not comparable) Covered in pitch. quotations examples
He had his tea and hot rolls in a morning, while we were battening upon our quarter-of-a-penny loaf — our crug — moistened with attenuated small beer, in wooden piggings, smacking of the pitched leathern jack it was poured from.
1823, Charles Lamb, Essays of Elia