Definition of pitching Pitching

/pɪˈʧɪŋ/ - [piching] - pitch•ing

We found 13 definitions of pitching from 6 different sources.

What does pitching mean?

Noun Plural: pitchings
pitching - (baseball) playing the position of pitcher on a baseball team
		playing the action of taking part in a game or sport or other recreation
pitching - abrupt up-and-down motion (as caused by a ship or other conveyance); "the pitching and tossing was quite exciting"
		lurch, pitch
		motility, move, motion, movement ability to move spontaneously and independently
		ship a vessel that carries passengers or freight

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pitching (Noun)
The act of throwing or casting.
pitching (Noun)
The rough paving of a street to a grade with blocks of stone.
pitching (Noun)
A facing of stone laid upon a bank to prevent wear by tides or currents.
pitching (Verb)
Present participle of pitch.

pitching (p. pr. & vb. n.)
of Pitch
pitching (n.)
The act of throwing or casting; a cast; a pitch; as, wild pitching in baseball.
pitching (n.)
The rough paving of a street to a grade with blocks of stone.
pitching (n.)
A facing of stone laid upon a bank to prevent wear by tides or currents.

pitching
tangage, (appicciare, Ital.) may be defined, the vertical vibration which the length of a ship makes about her centre of gravity; or the movement, by which she plunges her head and after-part alternately into the hollow of the sea.
This motion may proceed from two causes: the waves, which agitate the vessel; and the wind upon the sails, which makes her stoop to every blast thereof. The first absolutely depends upon the agitation of the sea, and is not susceptible of inquiry; and the second is occasioned by the inclination of the masts, and may be submitted to certain established maxims[43].
When the wind acts upon the sails, the mast yields to its effort, with an inclination, which increases in proportion to the length of the mast, to the augmentation of the wind, and to the comparative weight and distribution of the ship’s lading.
The repulsion of the water, to the effort of gravity, opposes itself to this inclination, or at least sustains it, by as much as the repulsion exceeds the momentum, or absolute effort of the mast, upon which the wind operates. At the end of each blast, when the wind suspends its action, this repulsion lifts the vessel; and these successive inclinations and repulsions produce the movement of pitching, which is very inconvenient; and when it is considerable, will greatly retard the course, as well as endanger the mast, and strain the vessel.

pitching
The plunging of a ship's head in a sea-way; the vertical vibration which her length makes about her centre of gravity; a very straining motion.