pitch ((n.)) DCHP-1 (pre-1967)
1 n.
a plot of land selected and occupied by a settler.
2a † n.
a sloping stretch in the course of a stream.
2b n.
a small waterfall or rapids.
3 n. — Lumbering, Hist.
of water in a stream, the point of greatest volume, as the peak of the spring runoff.