downpitch

present singular third person downpitches · participle present downpitching · participle past downpitched · past downpitched

1. To lower a sound in pitch.

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   "I didn't mean you enny harm," said Lund slowly, addressing Peggy. "Why, I wouldn't harm you, gal. You're my woman. You come to me. I was jest—jest sorter swept off my bearin's. Why," he turned to Rainey, his voice down-pitching to a growl of angry contempt, "you pen-shovin' whippersnapper, I c'ud break you in ha'f with one hand. You ain't her breed. But"—his voice changed again—"if it's a show-down, all right."

   1920, J. Allan Dunn, A Man To His Mate