THROW

noun a stroke; a blow.

2. throw ·noun an effort; a violent sally.

3. throw ·noun a turner's lathe; a throwe.

4. throw ·vt to cast, as dice; to venture at dice.

5. throw ·noun pain; especially, pain of travail; throe.

6. throw ·vt to put on hastily; to spread carelessly.

7. throw ·noun time; while; space of time; moment; trice.

8. throw ·vt to divest or strip one's self of; to put off.

9. throw ·noun a potter's wheel or table; a jigger. ·see 2d jigger, 2 (a).

10. throw ·noun the distance which a missile is, or may be, thrown; as, a stone's throw.

11. throw ·noun a cast of dice; the manner in which dice fall when cast; as, a good throw.

12. throw ·vt to drive by violence; as, a vessel or sailors may be thrown upon a rock.

13. throw ·vt to form or shape roughly on a throwing engine, or potter's wheel, as earthen vessels.

14. throw ·noun the act of hurling or flinging; a driving or propelling from the hand or an engine; a cast.

15. throw ·vt to give forcible utterance to; to cast; to vent.

xvi. throw ·vt to cause to take a strategic position; as, he threw a detachment of his army across the river.

xvii. throw ·vt to overturn; to prostrate in wrestling; as, a man throws his antagonist.

xviii. throw ·vt to bring forth; to produce, as young; to bear;

— said especially of rabbits.

xix. throw ·vi to perform the act of throwing or casting; to cast; specifically, to cast dice.

xx. throw ·vt to fling, cast, or hurl with a certain whirling motion of the arm, to throw a ball;

— distinguished from to toss, or to bowl.

xxi. throw ·noun the amount of vertical displacement produced by a fault;

— according to the direction it is designated as an upthrow, or a downthrow.

xxii. throw ·vt 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.

xxiii. throw ·vt 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.

xxiv. throw ·noun 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.