noun

• (geology) Pitchstone.

adj

• (of a black color) Intense, deep, dark.
  "Then I got back here - difficulty again: no trolly-bus, and and black pitcher than black - and have since been conning the Beveridge Report."

noun

• (baseball) The act of pitching a baseball.
  "The pitch was low and inside."
• (sports, UK, Australia, New Zealand) The field on which cricket, soccer, rugby, gridiron or field hockey is played. (In cricket, the pitch is in the centre of the field; see cricket pitch.) (Not often used in the US or Canada, where "field" is the preferred word.)
  "The teams met on the pitch."
• (golf) A short, high, lofty shot that lands with backspin.
• (rare) The field of battle.
  "“The two men of Alltraighe maintain, Two chiefs of the plain of Kerry, A clan the most active in pitch of battle, Their chiefs are O’Neide and Clan Conary.”"

verb

• (transitive) To throw.
  "He pitched the horseshoe."
• (transitive or intransitive, baseball) To throw (the ball) toward a batter at home plate.
  "The hurler pitched a curveball."
• (intransitive, baseball) To play baseball in the position of pitcher.
  "Bob pitches today."
• (transitive) To throw away; discard.
  "He pitched the candy wrapper."