, v.i. To light; to settle; to come to rest from flight.
Take a branch of the tree on which the bees pitch, and wipe the hive.
1. To fall headlong; as, to pitch from a precipice; to pitch on the head.
2. To plunge; as, to pitch into a river.
3. To fall; to fix choice; with on or upon.
Pitch upon the best course of life, and custom will render it the most easy.
4. To fix a tent or temporary habitation; to encamp.
Laban with his brethren pitched in the mount of Gilead. Gen 31.
5. In navigation, to rise and fall, as the head and stern of a ship passing over waves.
6. To flow or fall precipitously, as a river.
Over this rock, the river pitches in one entire sheet.