| The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition. 2000. |
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| PRONUNCIATION: |  p ch |
| NOUN: | 1. Any of various thick, dark, sticky substances obtained from the distillation residue of coal tar, wood tar, or petroleum and used for waterproofing, roofing, caulking, and paving. 2. Any of various natural bitumens, such as mineral pitch or asphalt. 3. A resin derived from the sap of various coniferous trees, as the pines. | | TRANSITIVE VERB: | Inflected forms: pitched, pitch·ing, pitch·es
To smear or cover with or as if with pitch. | | ETYMOLOGY: | Middle English pich, from Old English picand from Anglo-Norman piche, both from Latin pix, pic-.
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