pitched

korkea

kalteva (en-past of)
Having a slope.

a pitched roof

a high-pitched scream.

a pitched battle

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.