pitched

a pitched roof

a high-pitched scream.

a pitched battle; nowhere was the battle more pitched than in Ocean City, where protestors maintained a constant picket around city hall

He had his tea and hot rolls in a morning, while we were battening upon our quarter-of-a-penny loaf — our crug — moistened with attenuated small beer, in wooden piggings, smacking of the pitched leathern jack it was poured from.