Definitions for pitch-pine

pitch-pine pitch pine

Pitch-Pine is a 10 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 12 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 13 points.

You can make 194 anagrams from letters in pitch-pine (-cehiinppt).

Definitions for pitch-pine

noun

  1. any of several pines from which pitch or turpentine is obtained.

Origin of pitch-pine

An Americanism dating back to 1670-80

Examples for pitch-pine

"pitch pine, of course, affords the best knots," continued Cale.

Starved as is its existence, the pitch pine springs up with amazing vigor after a fire.

Of evergreens, only the pitch pine is still commonly bright.

My structure is of pitch pine, and stood for 16 years without repair.

The cone of the pitch pine is very unlike that of the white pine.

Gummy exudations of this pitch pine make it peculiarly liable to running fires.

The sittings in the nave, and the roof timbers, are of pitch pine.

pitch pine he made her of, and she's beautiful yet, for all her disgrace.

Dry, too, and almost ready to live in, and all the joinery of pitch pine.

Burn shavings and splinters of pitch pine, and when they turn to charcoal, put them out, and pound them in a mortar with size.

Word Value for pitch-pine
Scrable

12

Words with friends

13

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