pitched

Etymology

verb

1. simple past and past participle of pitch

adj

1. Having a slope.
   a pitched roof
2. (not comparable) Having a specified tonal range.
   a high-pitched scream
3. (of a battle, fight, etc) Fought at a particular place and time, at which opposing forces anticipate and commit to fighting; (later especially) involving sustained, intense military (or by extension, political, legal etc.) fighting.
   a pitched battle
   nowhere was the battle more pitched than in Ocean City, where protestors maintained a constant picket around city hall
4. (not comparable) Covered in pitch.
   He had his tea and hot rolls in a morning, while we were battening upon our quarter-of-a-penny loaf — our crug — moistened with attenuated small beer, in wooden piggings, smacking of the pitched leathern jack it was poured from. 1823, Charles Lamb, Essays of Elia