ˈpitch-ˌfarthing
[pitch v.1 17.]
A game resembling pitch-and-toss, in which the coins, instead of being tossed so as to fall ‘head or tail’, were pitched towards a hole, so as to afford more scope for skill; = chuck-farthing, q.v.
| 1742 Chesterfield Lett. (1792) I. xciv. 268 Your various occupations of Greek and cricket, Latin and pitch-farthing. 1861 Hughes Tom Brown at Oxf. xix. (1889) 186 A group of half-grown lads were playing at pitch-farthing. |