pitching

• POS: Noun
• HYPHEN: pitch=ing

CIDE DICTIONARY

pitching, n. 

•  The act of throwing or casting; a cast; a pitch; as, wild pitching in baseball.  [1913 Webster]
•  The rough paving of a street to a grade with blocks of stone.  Mayhew.  [1913 Webster]
•  A facing of stone laid upon a bank to prevent wear by tides or currents.  [1913 Webster]

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.

THESAURUS

pitching

archery, careening, casting, chucking, dangling, firing, flinging, gunnery, heaving, hurling, inclining, jaculation, leaning, lobbing, lurching, musketry, oblique, pitched, projection, reeling, rocking, rolling, shooting, skeet, skeet shooting, slinging, sloped, sloping, swaying, swinging, throwing, tilted, tilting, tipped, tossing, trajection, trapshooting