pitched

Having a slope, whether shallow, steep, or intermediate.

a pitched roof

The roofs up there are pitched heavier because of the snowfalls.

Having a specified tonal range.

a high-pitched scream

Fought at a particular place and time, at which opposing forces anticipate and commit to fighting; (later especially) involving sustained, intense military (or by extension, political, legal etc.) fighting.

a pitched battle

nowhere was the battle more pitched than in Ocean City, where protestors maintained a constant picket around city hall

Covered in pitch.

He had his tea and hot rolls in a morning, while we were battening upon our quarter-of-a-penny loaf — our crug — moistened with attenuated small beer, in wooden piggings, smacking of the pitched leathern jack it was poured from.