Throw

·noun A stroke; a blow.

II. Throw ·noun An effort; a violent sally.

III. Throw ·noun A turner's lathe; a throwe.

IV. Throw ·vt To cast, as dice; to venture at dice.

V. Throw ·noun Pain; especially, pain of travail; throe.

VI. Throw ·vt To put on hastily; to spread carelessly.

VII. Throw ·noun Time; while; space of time; moment; trice.

VIII. Throw ·vt To divest or strip one's self of; to put off.

IX. Throw ·noun A potter's wheel or table; a jigger. ·see 2d Jigger, 2 (a).

X. Throw ·noun The distance which a missile is, or may be, thrown; as, a stone's throw.

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

XII. Throw ·vt To drive by violence; as, a vessel or sailors may be thrown upon a rock.

XIII. Throw ·vt To form or shape roughly on a throwing engine, or potter's wheel, as earthen vessels.

XIV. Throw ·noun The act of hurling or flinging; a driving or propelling from the hand or an engine; a cast.

XV. 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.