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1. Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
archery, careening, casting, chucking, dangling, firing, flinging, gunnery, heaving, hurling, inclining, jaculation, leaning, lobbing, lurching, musketry, oblique, pitched, projection, reeling, rocking, rolling, shooting, skeet, skeet shooting, slinging, sloped, sloping, swaying, swinging, throwing, tilted, tilting, tipped, tossing, trajection, trapshooting
Dictionary Results for pitching:
1. WordNet® 3.0 (2006)
pitching
    n 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); "the pitching and tossing was quite exciting"
       [syn: lurch, pitch, pitching]

2. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Pitch \Pitch\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Pitched; p. pr. & vb. n.
   Pitching.] [See Pitch, n.]
   1. To cover over or smear with pitch. --Gen. vi. 14.
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   2. Fig.: To darken; to blacken; to obscure.
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            The welkin pitched with sullen could. --Addison.
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3. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Pitching \Pitch"ing\, n.
   1. The act of throwing or casting; a cast; a pitch; as, wild
      pitching in baseball.
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   2. The rough paving of a street to a grade with blocks of
      stone. --Mayhew.
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   3. (Hydraul. Eng.) A facing of stone laid upon a bank to
      prevent wear by tides or currents.
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   Pitching piece (Carp.), the horizontal timber supporting
      the floor of a platform of a stairway, and against which
      the stringpieces of the sloping parts are supported.
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