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- noun Plural form of
pitching .
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Examples
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I havent read/seen/heard any of Barrymore's pitchings about that theme, but I don't doubt that they are out there.
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One bundle after another, as it took fire from falling brands, was pitched off the truck and left to burn out on the pavement; and to these bundle-pitchings Mrs. Lively kept up a running accompaniment of groans and ejaculations.
Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Vol. 12, No. 32, November, 1873 Various
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The shoes displayed the mud or dust of marches and bits of rounded trousers, protruding from the blankets, showed rents and tears from hurried pitchings through the dense brambles.
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The shoes displayed the mud or dust of marches and bits of rounded trousers, protruding from the blankets, showed rents and tears from hurried pitchings through the dense brambles.
The Red Badge of Courage Crane, Stephen, 1871-1900 1895
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It was almost dusk when, after skirting the edge of a deep gorge, we reached a piece of bad road, where the coach with difficulty made its way, with frightful jolts and pitchings, till we drew up at Venta Colorado.
In Indian Mexico (1908) Frederick Starr 1895
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The shoes displayed the mud or dust of marches and bits of rounded trousers, protruding from the blankets, showed rents and tears from hurried pitchings through the dense brambles.
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The shoes displayed the mud or dust of marches and bits of rounded trousers, protruding from the blankets, showed rents and tears from hurried pitchings through the dense brambles.
The Red Badge of Courage Stephen Crane 1885
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The shoes displayed the mud or dust of marches and bits of rounded trousers, protruding from the blankets, showed rents and tears from hurried pitchings through the dense brambles.
The Red Badge of Courage Stephen Crane 1885
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It was just one succession of rollings and pitchings from the time we left New Bedford till we got sight of the coast of Portugal.
A Red Wallflower Susan Warner 1852
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He clambered up nearly to the orlop deck by means of the stowage, and then, watching for a lull in the pitchings of the vessel, he called out to me in as loud a tone as he could command, regardless, for the moment, of being overheard by the crew.
The Works of Edgar Allan Poe — Volume 3 Edgar Allan Poe 1829
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