stone-pitch ? Obs.
[f. stone n. (see 17 c) + pitch n.1 Cf. G. steinpech, bitumen.]
1. Pitch in the solid form; hard or dry pitch.
| c 1450 M.E. Med. Bk. (Heinrich) 174 Spaynysche code & stanpicche. [Harl. MS. 1600 half a pond of stanpiche.] 1579 Langham Gard. Health 493 Stone or drie Pitch, hath the vertues of Tarre or liquid Pitch, but not so strong. 1610 Holland Camden's Brit. i. 411 Plankes of oke with nailes driven into them, cemented with stone-pitch. 1668 Charleton Onomast. 236 Bitumen..Stone-Pitch. |
2. (Meaning obscure.)
| 1589 in H. Hall Soc. Eliz. Age (1886) 225 Supper eodem. A shoulder of mutton,..Bred & beare,..Stone pytche. |