pitch pine

noun

any of several pines from which pitch or turpentine is obtained.

Origin of pitch pine

An Americanism dating back to 1670–80

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Examples from the Web for pitch pine

They let the boat ground on the smooth sand and one of them lighted a torch of pitch-pine splinters.
Blackbeard: Buccaneer|Ralph D. Paine
The beams of the main-deck are of American or German oak, those of the lower deck and half-deck of pitch-pine and Norwegian fir.
The South Pole, Volumes 1 and 2|Roald Amundsen
On the side of the mountain we found only yellow and pitch-pine.
The Expeditions of Zebulon Montgomery Pike, Volume II (of 3)|Elliott Coues
The wall and the floors were of pitch-pine, and covered with specially manufactured tartars.
Queen Victoria|Lytton Strachey

After dark, the whole scene was lit up with fires of pitch-pine.
The Memoirs of General W. T. Sherman, Complete|William T. Sherman

British Dictionary definitions for pitch pine

pitch pine

noun

any of various coniferous trees of the genus Pinus, esp P. rigida, of North America, having red-brown bark and long lustrous light brown cones: valued as a source of turpentine and pitch

the wood of any of these trees

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pitch pine

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