Pitch upon the best course of life, and custom will render it the
more easy.
Tillotson.
4. To plunge or fall; esp., to fall forward; to decline or slope; as,
to pitch from a precipice; the vessel pitches in a heavy sea; the field
pitches toward the east.
Pitch and pay, an old aphorism which inculcates ready-money payment, or
payment on delivery of goods. Shak.
Pitch, n. 1. A throw; a toss; a cast, as of something from the hand;
as, a good pitch in quoits.
Pitch and toss, a game played by tossing up a coin, and calling "Heads
or tails;" hence: To play pitch and toss with (anything), to be
careless or trust to luck about it. "To play pitch and toss with the
property of the country." G. Eliot. -- Pitch farthing. See Chuck
farthing, under 5th Chuck.
2. (Cricket) That point of the ground on which the ball pitches or
lights when bowled.
3. A point or peak; the extreme point or degree of elevation or
depression; hence, a limit or bound.
Driven headlong from the pitch of heaven, down Into this deep.
Milton.
Enterprises of great pitch and moment.
Shak.
To lowest pitch of abject fortune.
Milton.
He lived when learning was at its highest pitch.
Addison.
The exact pitch, or limits, where temperance ends.
Sharp.