pitched

1. (not comparable) Having a specified tonal range.Examples: "a high-pitched scream"not-comparable

2. (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.Examples: "a pitched battle"; "nowhere was the battle more pitched than in Ocean City, where protestors maintained a constant picket around city hall"

3. (not comparable) Covered in pitch.Examples: "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."not-comparable