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Entry 24 senses · 5 variants Webster, 1913

Throw

/(thrō)/ · IPA /θɹoʊ/
01 n. Pain; especially, pain of travail; throe.
  1. 1.
    Pain; especially, pain of travail; throe.[Obs.]
02 n. Time; while; space of time; moment; trice.
  1. 1.
    Time; while; space of time; moment; trice.[Obs.]
    “I will with Thomas speak a little throw.” — Chaucer.
03 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.
imp. Threw; p. p. Thrown; p. pr. & vb. n. Throwing
  1. 1.
    To fling, cast, or hurl with a certain whirling motion of the arm, to throw a ball; -- distinguished from to toss, or to bowl.
  2. 2.
    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.
  3. 3.
    To drive by violence; as, a vessel or sailors may be thrown upon a rock.
  4. 4.
    To cause to take a strategic position; as, he threw a detachment of his army across the river.(Mil.)
  5. 5.
    To overturn; to prostrate in wrestling; as, a man throws his antagonist.
  6. 6.
    To cast, as dice; to venture at dice.
    “Set less than thou throwest.” — Shak.
  7. 7.
    To put on hastily; to spread carelessly.
    “O'er his fair limbs a flowery vest he threw.” — Pope.
  8. 8.
    To divest or strip one's self of; to put off.
    “There the snake throws her enameled skin.” — Shak.
  9. 9.
    To form or shape roughly on a throwing engine, or potter's wheel, as earthen vessels.(Pottery)
  10. 10.
    To give forcible utterance to; to cast; to vent.
    “I have thrown A brave defiance in King Henry's teeth.” — Shak.
  11. 11.
    To bring forth; to produce, as young; to bear; -- said especially of rabbits.
  12. 12.
    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.
Phrases & compounds
To throw away — To lose by neglect or folly; to spend in vain; to bestow without a compensation; as, to throw away time; to throw away money.
To throw back — To retort; to cast back, as a reply.
To throw by — to lay aside; to discard; to neglect as useless; as, to throw by a garment.
To throw down — to subvert; to overthrow; to destroy; as, to throw down a fence or wall.
To throw in — To inject, as a fluid.
To throw off — To expel; to free one's self from; as, to throw off a disease.
To throw on — to cast on; to load.
To throw one's self down — to lie down neglectively or suddenly.
To throw one's self on — To fall upon.
To throw out — To cast out; to reject or discard; to expel.
To throw over — to abandon the cause of; to desert; to discard; as, to throw over a friend in difficulties.
To throw up — To resign; to give up; to demit; as, to throw up a commission.
04 v. i. To perform the act of throwing or casting; to cast; specifically, to cast dice.
  1. 1.
    To perform the act of throwing or casting; to cast; specifically, to cast dice.
Phrases & compounds
To throw about — to cast about; to try expedients.
05 n. The act of hurling or flinging; a driving or propelling from the hand or an engine; a cast.
  1. 1.
    The act of hurling or flinging; a driving or propelling from the hand or an engine; a cast.
    “He heaved a stone, and, rising to the throw, He sent it in a whirlwind at the foe.” — Addison.
  2. 2.
    A stroke; a blow.[Obs.]
    “Nor shield defend the thunder of his throws.” — Spenser.
  3. 3.
    The distance which a missile is, or may be, thrown; as, a stone's throw.
  4. 4.
    A cast of dice; the manner in which dice fall when cast; as, a good throw.
  5. 5.
    An effort; a violent sally.[Obs.]
    “Your youth admires The throws and swellings of a Roman soul.” — Addison.
  6. 6.
    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.(Mach.)
  7. 7.
    A potter's wheel or table; a jigger. See 2d Jigger, 2 (a).(Pottery) See: Jigger
  8. 8.
    A turner's lathe; a throwe.[Prov. Eng.]
  9. 9.
    The amount of vertical displacement produced by a fault; -- according to the direction it is designated as an upthrow, or a downthrow.(Mining)