Crossword-Solution: PITCH
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| Pitch | n. | A thick, black, lustrous, and sticky substance obtained by boiling down tar. It is used in calking the seams of ships; also in coating rope, canvas, wood, ironwork, etc., to preserve them. |
| Pitch | n. | See Pitchstone. |
| Pitch | n. | To cover over or smear with pitch. |
| Pitch | n. | Fig.: To darken; to blacken; to obscure. |
| Pitch | v. t. | To throw, generally with a definite aim or purpose; to cast; to hurl; to toss; as, to pitch quoits; to pitch hay; to pitch a ball. |
| Pitch | v. t. | To thrust or plant in the ground, as stakes or poles; hence, to fix firmly, as by means of poles; to establish; to arrange; as, to pitch a tent; to pitch a camp. |
| Pitch | v. t. | To set, face, or pave with rubble or undressed stones, as an embankment or a roadway. |
| Pitch | v. t. | To fix or set the tone of; as, to pitch a tune. |
| Pitch | v. t. | To set or fix, as a price or value. |
| Pitch | v. i. | To fix or place a tent or temporary habitation; to encamp. |
| Pitch | v. i. | To light; to settle; to come to rest from flight. |
| Pitch | v. i. | To fix one's choise; -- with on or upon. |
| Pitch | v. i. | To plunge or fall; esp., to fall forward; to decline or slope; as, to pitch from a precipice; the vessel pitches in a heavy sea; the field pitches toward the east. |
| Pitch | n. | A throw; a toss; a cast, as of something from the hand; as, a good pitch in quoits. |
| Pitch | n. | That point of the ground on which the ball pitches or lights when bowled. |
| Pitch | n. | A point or peak; the extreme point or degree of elevation or depression; hence, a limit or bound. |
| Pitch | n. | Height; stature. |
| Pitch | n. | A descent; a fall; a thrusting down. |
| Pitch | n. | The point where a declivity begins; hence, the declivity itself; a descending slope; the degree or rate of descent or slope; slant; as, a steep pitch in the road; the pitch of a roof. |
| Pitch | n. | The relative acuteness or gravity of a tone, determined by the number of vibrations which produce it; the place of any tone upon a scale of high and low. |
| Pitch | n. | The limit of ground set to a miner who receives a share of the ore taken out. |
| Pitch | n. | The distance from center to center of any two adjacent teeth of gearing, measured on the pitch line; -- called also circular pitch. |
| Pitch | n. | The length, measured along the axis, of a complete turn of the thread of a screw, or of the helical lines of the blades of a screw propeller. |
| Pitch | n. | The distance between the centers of holes, as of rivet holes in boiler plates. |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
TAERE
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with PITCH (5)
And Nokomis, the old woman, Pointing with her finger westward, Spake these words to Hiawatha: “Yonder dwells the great Pearl-Feather, Megissogwon, the Magician, Manito of Wealth and Wampum, Guarded by his fiery serpents, Guarded by the black pitch-water.
Mean while Warr arose, And fields were fought in Heav’n; wherein remaind (For what could else) to our Almighty Foe Cleer Victory, to our part loss and rout Through all the Empyrean: down they fell Driv’n headlong from the Pitch of Heaven, down Into this Deep, and in the general fall I also; at which time this powerful Key Into my hand was giv’n, with charge to keep These Gates for ever shut, which none can pass Without my op’ning.
Breathe not to any human soul that thou didst ever call me husband! Here, on this wild outskirt of the earth, I shall pitch my tent; for, elsewhere a wanderer, and isolated from human interests, I find here a woman, a man, a child, amongst whom and myself there exist the closest ligaments.
The fighting-machines were coordinated and animated to an extraordinary pitch, but nothing to compare with this.
Cited here because its alleged sales pitch, "Nothing sucks like a VAX!" became a sort of battle-cry of RISC partisans.
Quotes with PITCH (3)
I remembered Robyn telling me the story of Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, and how they'd survived: when the King chucked them in the furnace and an angel or someone went in with them. The furnace blazed all around them but they didn't burn. And it did calm me. I don't know if it was Robyn or an angel or even God himself was in the boot, but I was starting to suspect that whenever I wanted God, he was there. Only not necessarily in the form I wanted, or doing what I wanted..…
My ACTIONS should draw people to the God I serve, not my SALES PITCH. If people want what I have, they'll ask me how to get it. If not, that's their business.
He will know from and early age that failure is not disgrace. It's just a pitch that you missed, and you'd better get ready for the next one. The next one might be the shot heard round the world. My son and I are Americans, we prepare for glory by failing until we don't.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: Crossroads, CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, New Yorker, NY Sun, NYT, Rock & Roll, Universal, USA TODAY, WP, WSJ.
Used 69 times in crossword archives (1954–2025).