Pitch and pay

Pitch \Pitch\, v. i.
   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.
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   2. To light; to settle; to come to rest from flight.
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            The tree whereon they [the bees] pitch. --Mortimer.
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   3. To fix one's choise; -- with on or upon.
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            Pitch upon the best course of life, and custom will
            render it the more easy.              --Tillotson.
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   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.
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   {Pitch and pay}, an old aphorism which inculcates ready-money
      payment, or payment on delivery of goods. --Shak.
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