To fix or place a tent or temporary habitation; to
encamp.

To light; to settle; to come to rest from flight.

To throw, generally with a definite aim or purpose; to
cast; to hurl; to toss; as, to pitch quoits; to pitch hay; to pitch a
ball.

To fix or set the tone of; as, to pitch a tune.

To thrust or plant in the ground, as stakes or poles;
hence, to fix firmly, as by means of poles; to establish; to arrange;
as, to pitch a tent; to pitch a camp.

Fig.: To darken; to blacken; to obscure.

See Pitchstone.

A thick, black, lustrous, and sticky substance obtained by
boiling down tar. It is used in calking the seams of ships; also in
coating rope, canvas, wood, ironwork, etc., to preserve them.

To cover over or smear with pitch.

To set, face, or pave with rubble or undressed stones, as
an embankment or a roadway.