Throw(n.)
- Pain; especially, pain of travail; throe.
Throw(n.)
- Time; while; space of time; moment; trice.
Throw(v. t.)
- To fling, cast, or hurl with a certain whirling motion of the arm, to throw a ball; -- distinguished from to toss, or to bowl.
Throw(v. t.)
- To fling or cast in any manner; to drive to a distance from the hand or from an engine; to propel; to send; as, to throw stones or dust with the hand; a cannon throws a ball; a fire engine throws a stream of water to extinguish flames.
Throw(v. t.)
- To drive by violence; as, a vessel or sailors may be thrown upon a rock.
Throw(v. t.)
- To cause to take a strategic position; as, he threw a detachment of his army across the river.
Throw(v. t.)
- To overturn; to prostrate in wrestling; as, a man throws his antagonist.
Throw(v. t.)
- To cast, as dice; to venture at dice.
Throw(v. t.)
- To put on hastily; to spread carelessly.
Throw(v. t.)
- To divest or strip one's self of; to put off.
Throw(v. t.)
- To form or shape roughly on a throwing engine, or potter's wheel, as earthen vessels.
Throw(v. t.)
- To give forcible utterance to; to cast; to vent.
Throw(v. t.)
- To bring forth; to produce, as young; to bear; -- said especially of rabbits.
Throw(v. t.)
- To twist two or more filaments of, as silk, so as to form one thread; to twist together, as singles, in a direction contrary to the twist of the singles themselves; -- sometimes applied to the whole class of operations by which silk is prepared for the weaver.
Throw(v. i.)
- To perform the act of throwing or casting; to cast; specifically, to cast dice.
Throw(n.)
- The act of hurling or flinging; a driving or propelling from the hand or an engine; a cast.
Throw(n.)
- The extreme movement given to a sliding or vibrating reciprocating piece by a cam, crank, eccentric, or the like; travel; stroke; as, the throw of a slide valve. Also, frequently, the length of the radius of a crank, or the eccentricity of an eccentric; as, the throw of the crank of a steam engine is equal to half the stroke of the piston.
Throw(n.)
- A potter's wheel or table; a jigger. See 2d Jigger, 2 (a).