Word Meaning

throw definition and meaning

n. Pain; especially, pain of travail; throe.
n. Time; while; space of time; moment; trice.
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.
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.
v. t. To drive by violence; as, a vessel or sailors may be thrown upon a rock.
v. t. To cause to take a strategic position; as, he threw a detachment of his army across the river.
v. t. To overturn; to prostrate in wrestling; as, a man throws his antagonist.
v. t. To cast, as dice; to venture at dice.
v. t. To put on hastily; to spread carelessly.
v. t. To divest or strip one's self of; to put off.
v. t. To form or shape roughly on a throwing engine, or potter's wheel, as earthen vessels.
v. t. To give forcible utterance to; to cast; to vent.
v. t. To bring forth; to produce, as young; to bear; -- said especially of rabbits.
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.
v. i. To perform the act of throwing or casting; to cast; specifically, to cast dice.
n. The act of hurling or flinging; a driving or propelling from the hand or an engine; a cast.
n. A stroke; a blow.
n. The distance which a missile is, or may be, thrown; as, a stone's throw.
n. A cast of dice; the manner in which dice fall when cast; as, a good throw.
n. An effort; a violent sally.
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.
n. A potter's wheel or table; a jigger. See 2d Jigger, 2 (a).
n. A turner's lathe; a throwe.
n. The amount of vertical displacement produced by a fault; -- according to the direction it is designated as an upthrow, or a downthrow.

Crossword clues for throw

- Astonish with a network of pathways
- Blanket over chair is worth replacing
- Cast
- Chuck has project that is worth a change
- Confuse Chuck
- Decorative blanket
- Dumbfound
- Hurl
- It’s worth altering pitch
- Light blanket
- Listener leaves the arrow for the sling
- Project
- Scatter rug project
- Toss