pitch pine
[f. pitch n.1 + pine n.2]
Name given to several species of pine-tree with specially resinous wood, or from which pitch or turpentine is obtained. Also attrib.
Esp. Pinus rigida, and P. australis or palustris (Long-leaved Pine), of North America, and Phyllocladus trichomanoides (Celery Pine), of New Zealand; also, the wood of any of these.
| 1676 Essex Inst. Hist. Coll. (1920) LVI. 306 43/4 acres of land..bounded by a pitch pine. 1684 Manchester (Mass.) Town Rec. (1889) 17 A pich [sic] pine tree marked with 4 marks. 1709 J. Lawson New Voy. Carolina 89 Ever-Greens are here plentifully found, of a very quick Growth, and pleasant Shade; Cypress, or White Cedar, the Pitch Pine, the yellow Pine. 1736 Rec. Early Hist. Boston (1885) XII. 150 Add to the South East Side Ten foot, to be built of Square Pitch Pine Timber. 1771 J. S. Copley Let. 3 Aug. in Mass. Hist. Soc. Coll. (1914) LXXI. 138 The floor..should be Pitch Pine. 1754 in 6th Rep. Dep. Kpr. App. ii. 128 Preparing from the Glutinous Juices of the American Pitch Pine Tree a Varnish. 1810 Trans. Soc. Arts XXVIII. 95 The pitch⁓pine of Virginia, the Carolinas, Georgia, and the Floridas grow to an immense size in what are there called pine⁓barrens. 1863 Pilgr. over Prairies II. 165 A watchful sentinel outside, who, by the light of a pitchpine torch, placed in the hut, could command my every movement. 1866 Treas. Bot. 891/1 Pitch Pine [the wood] of Pinus rigida, and Georgia Pitch Pine that of Pinus australis. 1887 C. B. George 40 Yrs. on Rail 31 Pitch pine was largely used for fuel. 1969 T. H. Everett Living Trees of World 50/2 Pitch pine, rarely more than 75 feet high, has an open irregular head. 1977 Listener 3 Nov. 594/2 The church where so many Trelawnies lie under the pitchpine and the shiny tiles. |