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pitch-faced

pitch-faced adjective: having the arris defined by a line beyond which the rock is cut away, so as to give nearly true edges; said of squared stones that are otherwise quarry-faced.

pitch-faced: having the arris defined by a line beyond which the rock is cut away, so as to give nearly true...
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Adjective

pitch-faced (comparative more pitch-faced, superlative most pitch-faced)

  1. Having the arris defined by a line beyond which the rock is cut away, so as to give nearly true edges; said of squared stones that are otherwise quarry-faced.
    • pitch-faced stone

Forms of pitch-faced

comparativemore pitch-faced
superlativemost pitch-faced

Questions about pitch-faced

What does pitch-faced mean?
Pitch-faced means having the arris defined by a line beyond which the rock is cut away, so as to give nearly true edges; said of squared stones that are otherwise quarry-faced.
What part of speech is pitch-faced?
Pitch-faced is an adjective.

Words near pitch-faced in the dictionary

  1. pitch-apple
  2. pitch-black
  3. pitch-blackened
  4. pitch-blackness
  5. pitch-dark
  6. pitch-faced
  7. pitch-farthing
  8. pitch-penny
  9. pitch-perfect
  10. pitch-perfection
  11. pitch-perfectly

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