Pitchfork
(Pitch"fork`), v. t. To pitch or throw with, or as with, a pitchfork.
He has been pitchforked into the footguards.
G. A. Sala. Pitchiness
(Pitch"i*ness) n. [From Pitchy.] Blackness, as of pitch; darkness.
Pitching
(Pitch"ing), n.
1. The act of throwing or casting; a cast; a pitch; as, wild pitching in baseball.
2. The rough paving of a street to a grade with blocks of stone. Mayhew.
3. (Hydraul. Eng.) A facing of stone laid upon a bank to prevent wear by tides or currents.
Pitching piece (Carp.),
the horizontal timber supporting the floor of a platform of a stairway, and against
which the stringpieces of the sloping parts are supported.
Pitch-ore
(Pitch"-ore`) n. (Min.) Pitchblende.
Pitchstone
(Pitch"stone`) n. (Geol.) An igneous rock of semiglassy nature, having a luster like pitch.
Pitchwork
(Pitch"work`) n. The work of a coal miner who is paid by a share of his product.
Pitchy
(Pitch"y) a. [From 1st Pitch.]
1. Partaking of the qualities of pitch; resembling pitch.
2. Smeared with pitch.
3. Black; pitch-dark; dismal. "Pitchy night." Shak.
Piteous
(Pit"e*ous) a. [OE. pitous, OF. pitos, F. piteux. See Pity.]
1. Pious; devout. [Obs.]
The Lord can deliver piteous men from temptation.
Wyclif. 2. Evincing pity, compassion, or sympathy; compassionate; tender. "[She] piteous of his case." Pope.
She was so charitable and so pitous.
Chaucer. 3. Fitted to excite pity or sympathy; wretched; miserable; lamentable; sad; as, a piteous case. Spenser.
The most piteous tale of Lear.
Shak. 4. Paltry; mean; pitiful. "Piteous amends." Milton.
Syn. — Sorrowful; mournful; affecting; doleful; woeful; rueful; sad; wretched; miserable; pitiable; pitiful; compassionate.
— Pit"e*ous*ly, adv. — Pit"e*ous*ness, n.
Pitfall
(Pit"fall`) n. A pit deceitfully covered to entrap wild beasts or men; a trap of any kind. Sir T. North.
Pitfalling
(Pit"fall`ing), a. Entrapping; insnaring. [R.] "Full of . . . contradiction and pitfalling dispenses."
Milton.
Pith
(Pith) n. [AS. pia; akin to D. pit pith, kernel, LG. peddik. Cf. Pit a kernel.]