PITCH (4)

Pitch, v. i. 1. 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. 2. To light; to settle; to come to rest from flight.
The tree whereon they pitch. Mortimer. 3. 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. 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.