Meaning

3 senses
  1. (countable, uncountable)The act of throwing or casting.

    wild pitching in baseball

  2. (countable, uncountable)The rough paving of a street to a grade with blocks of stone.

  3. (countable, uncountable)A facing of stone laid upon a bank to prevent wear by tides or currents.

More definitions
  • (baseball) playing the position of pitcher on a baseball team
  • abrupt up-and-down motion (as caused by a ship or other conveyance)

Forms

plural: pitchings
Singularpitching
Pluralpitchings

regular

Synonyms

2 synonyms
Close in meaning
  • abrupt up-and-down motion (as caused by a ship or other conveyance):lurchpitch

Word family

3 related words

See also

neighbours in the dictionary

Dictionary text adapted from Wiktionary (Wiktionary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Open English WordNet / Princeton WordNet (CC BY 4.0, WordNet License); shared under CC BY-SA 4.0. Example sentences and recordings are credited where they appear.

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