pitch

UK /pɪt͡ʃ/ US /pɪt͡ʃ/
noun 11verb 9adj 2

Definitions

noun

1

A sticky, gummy substance secreted by trees; sap.

It is hard to get this pitch off my hand.

2

A dark, extremely viscous material still remaining after distilling crude oil or natural tar.

Near-synonyms: tar, coal tar, asphalt, bitumen

They put pitch on the mast to protect it.

3

Pitchstone.

verb

1

To cover or smear with pitch.

“Make thee an ark of gopher wood; rooms shalt thou make in the ark, and shalt pitch it within and without with pitch.”

2

To darken; to blacken; to obscure.

1704 (published), year written unknown, John Dryden, On the Death of Amyntas Soon he found / The welkin pitch'd with sullen clouds.

adj

1

Very dark black; pitch-black.

For quotations using this term, see Citations:pitch.

2

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.

If you lose even once, that's it: The screen goes, like, the pitchest black ever, and you're [out].

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