pitched

verbadjectiveattested in dialogue

//pɪt͡ʃt//

Having a slope, whether shallow, steep, or intermediate.

verb

1
Also a form of pitchsimple past and past participle of pitch

adjective

1
Having a slope, whether shallow, steep, or intermediate.
a pitched roof
The roofs up there are pitched heavier because of the snowfalls.
If you look closely, you can see that this whole patio is pitched at a quarter-inch to the foot.
2
Having a specified tonal range.
a high-pitched scream
Carrados made his smiling admission and changed his position a fraction—possibly to catch her curiously pitched voice the better.
3
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.
a pitched battle
nowhere was the battle more pitched than in Ocean City, where protestors maintained a constant picket around city hall
4
Covered in pitch.
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.

Forms

comparative: more pitched
superlative: most pitched

pistol · A handgun pit · A hole in the ground.pitch · A sticky, gummy substance secreted by trees; tree sap.

pitched · Having a slope, whether shallow, steep, or intermediate.

pitcher · One who pitches (in any sense) anything Pitcher · A surname.pitching · The act of throwing or casting.

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