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- noun Plural form of
subsense .
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In the latest OED, the general verb “pitch” as distinct from the homonymous verb that means to apply pitch has 24 senses and a vast number of subsenses, none of which seems to have much to do with non-melting snow.
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The first sense listed in an entry in a dictionary does not have primacy over subsequent senses or subsenses according to the notes on how to read an entry over at m-w.
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