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Pitch dark

Dark as a pitch pitch black...


Pitch black

Black as pitch or tar...


Pitchblende

A pitch black mineral consisting chiefly of the oxide of uranium uraninite See Uraninite...


Pissasphalt

Earth pitch a soft black bitumen of the consistency of tar and of a strong smell It is inflammable and intermediate between petroleum and asphalt...


Pitchiness

Blackness as of pitch darkness...


Pitch

A thick black lustrous and sticky substance obtained by boiling down tar It is used in calking the seams of ships also in coating rope canvas wood ironwork etc to preserve them...


Stallage

Stallage, the liberty or right of pitching. Or erecting stalls in fairs or markets, or the money paid for the same, 1 Steph. Com. 'The right of stallaye is a right for a payment to be made, to the owner of the market, in respect of the exclusive occupation of a portion of the soil, for the purpose of selling goods in the market': Williams on Rights of Common, p. 295; see Mayor, etc., of Great Yarmouth v. Groom, (1862) 1 H&C 102.1. The right to erect stalls in public markets 2. The cost for that right, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 1412....


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