Source : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Pitch \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.'' --Gen. xxxi. 25.

   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. --Shak.