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 Pitch, v. i.
 1. To fix or place a tent or temporary habitation; to encamp. “Laban with his brethren pitched in the Mount of Gilead.”
 2. To light; to settle; to come to rest from flight.
    The tree whereon they [the bees] pitch.   --Mortimer.
 3. To fix one's choise; -- with on or upon.
    Pitch upon the best course of life, and custom will render it the more easy.   --Tillotson.
 4. To plunge or fall; esp., to fall forward; to decline or slope; as, to pitch from a precipice; the vessel pitches in a heavy sea; the field pitches toward the east.
 Pitch and pay, an old aphorism which inculcates ready-money payment, or payment on delivery of goods.