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Bible Encyclopedias
Pitch
1911 Encyclopedia Britannica
or (i) (0.(0. Eng. pic, an adaptation of Lat. pix, picis, Gr. T ivaa, irirra, allied with Gr. wins, pine-tree, Lat. pinus), the name of various substances of dark colour and of extremely viscid and tenacious consistency when subjected to heat. Strictly the term is applied to the resinous substance obtained as a solid residuum by the distillation of wood-tar (see TAR), or the non-resinous substance similarly produced from Coal-tar. The name is also applied to the natural mineral substances, i.e. asphalt or bitumen (qq.v.). (2) A noun of various meanings which are somewhat difficult to connect with the verb from which they apparently must be derived. "To pitch" means primarily to thrust in or fix a stake or other pointed object into the ground, hence to place in a fixed position, set in order, cast or throw, hence to incline or slope. The etymology is obscure, but it appears in Northern dialects as "pick," of which it may be a variant; there is some difficulty in connecting this form with "pick," variant of "pike".
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Chisholm, Hugh, General Editor. Entry for 'Pitch'. 1911 Encyclopedia Britanica. https://www.studylight.org/encyclopedias/eng/bri/p/pitch.html. 1910.
