PITCHING

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does pitching mean? 

• PITCHING (noun)
  The noun PITCHING has 2 senses:

1. (baseball) playing the position of pitcher on a baseball team

2. abrupt up-and-down motion (as caused by a ship or other conveyance)

  Familiarity information: PITCHING used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• PITCHING (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

(baseball) playing the position of pitcher on a baseball team

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Hypernyms ("pitching" is a kind of...):

playing (the action of taking part in a game or sport or other recreation)

Domain category:

ball; baseball; baseball game (a ball game played with a bat and ball between two teams of nine players; teams take turns at bat trying to score runs)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Abrupt up-and-down motion (as caused by a ship or other conveyance)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

lurch; pitch; pitching

Context example:

the pitching and tossing was quite exciting

Hypernyms ("pitching" is a kind of...):

motility; motion; move; movement (a change of position that does not entail a change of location)

Domain category:

ship (a vessel that carries passengers or freight)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "pitching"):

careen; rock; sway; tilt (pitching dangerously to one side)

Derivation:

pitch (move abruptly)

 Context examples 

So sleepily helpless was I that she was compelled to hold me in my chair to prevent my being flung to the floor by the violent pitching of the schooner.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

And all the time, as we were pitching it in red hot, we were keeping the women off him as best we could for they were as wild as harpies.

(The Strange Case Of Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

There were times when several dogs, pitching on to him, punished him before he could get away; and there were times when a single dog scored deeply on him.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

I even walk, on two or three occasions, in a sickly, spoony manner, round and round the house after the family are gone to bed, wondering which is the eldest Miss Larkins's chamber (and pitching, I dare say now, on Mr. Larkins's instead); wishing that a fire would burst out; that the assembled crowd would stand appalled; that I, dashing through them with a ladder, might rear it against her window, save her in my arms, go back for something she had left behind, and perish in the flames.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

Her monstrosities in the way of cattle would have taken prizes at an agricultural fair, and the perilous pitching of her vessels would have produced seasickness in the most nautical observer, if the utter disregard to all known rules of shipbuilding and rigging had not convulsed him with laughter at the first glance.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

Day broke and found me wan-eyed and the ocean lashed white, the boat pitching, almost on end, to its drag.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

The cabin was small, to begin with, and to move around, as I was compelled to, was not made easier by the schooner’s violent pitching and wallowing.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

The Ghost, at the moment, was uptossed on a sea, and I caught a clear view of a small steamship two or three miles away, rolling and pitching, head on to the sea, as it steamed toward us.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

Then blisters came, in a painful and never-ending procession, and I had a great burn on my forearm, acquired by losing my balance in a roll of the ship and pitching against the galley stove.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)