down-pitched

Updated: June 22, 2025

And just then the fore-topgallant-yard carried away luckily as the bow was down-pitched into a trough of sea-and when the slow, confused, and tangled descent was accomplished the big stick lay across the wreck of both bulwarks and of that portion of the bridge between the foremast and the forecastle head. Bert Rhine heard, but could not see, the damage wrought.

Jack London - The Mutiny of the Elsinore