Throw-crook

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• Throw

  ·noun A stroke; a blow. II. Throw ·noun An effort; a violent sally. III. Throw ·noun A turner's la...

  Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

• throw

  to turn, as turners do ; ab A. S. THRAWAN, which, among various significations, means to turn and wi...

  A glossary of provincial and local words used in England by Francis Grose

• throw

  A cast of the hand-lead. ...

  The Sailor's Word-Book

• Crook

  ·noun A <<Pothook>>. II. Crook ·noun Any implement having a bent or crooked end. III. Crook ·noun ...

  Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

• crook

  Sixpence. ...

  Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose

• Throw-off

  ·noun A start in a hunt or a race. ...

  Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

• Two-throw

  ·add. ·adj Having two crank set near together and opposite to one another; as, a two-throw crank sha...

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• crook back

  Sixpence; for the reason of this name, see CRIPPLE. ...

  Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose

• crook shanks

  A nickname for a man with bandy legs. He buys his boots in Crooked Lane, and his stockings in Bandy-...

  Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose

• crook-lug

  a long pole with a hook at the end of it, used for pulling down dead branches of trees. Glou. ...

  A glossary of provincial and local words used in England by Francis Grose

• racking crook

  a crane, or pot-hook. Northumb. ...

  A glossary of provincial and local words used in England by Francis Grose

• crook your elbow

  To crook one's elbow, and wish it may never come straight, if the fact then affirmed is not true--ac...

  Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose

• throw of the shot

  See dispart of the shot ...

  The Sailor's Word-Book

• by hook or by crook

  One way or other; by any expedient.--Johnson. It can't be done by hook or crook, Unless your Highn...

  Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.