throwing : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: throwing	by the DICT Development Group
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From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Throw \Throw\, v. t. [imp. {Threw} (thr[udd]); p. p. {Thrown} (thr[omac]n); p. pr. & vb. n. {Throwing}.] [OE. [thorn]rowen, [thorn]rawen, to throw, to twist, AS. [thorn]r[be]wan to twist, to whirl; akin to D. draaijen, G. drehen, OHG. dr[be]jan, L. terebra an auger, gimlet, Gr. [?] to bore, to turn, [?] to pierce, [?] a hole. Cf. {Thread}, {Trite}, {Turn}, v. t.] 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. 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. To drive by violence; as, a vessel or sailors may be thrown upon a rock. 4. (Mil.) To cause to take a strategic position; as, he threw a detachment of his army across the river. 5. To overturn; to prostrate in wrestling; as, a man throws his antagonist. 6. To cast, as dice; to venture at dice. Set less than thou throwest. --Shak. 7. To put on hastily; to spread carelessly. O'er his fair limbs a flowery vest he threw. --Pope. 8. To divest or strip one's self of; to put off. There the snake throws her enameled skin. --Shak. 9. (Pottery) To form or shape roughly on a throwing engine, or potter's wheel, as earthen vessels. 10. To give forcible utterance to; to cast; to vent. I have thrown A brave defiance in King Henry's teeth. --Shak. 11. To bring forth; to produce, as young; to bear; -- said especially of rabbits. 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. --Tomlinson. {To throw away}. (a) To lose by neglect or folly; to spend in vain; to bestow without a compensation; as, to throw away time; to throw away money. (b) To reject; as, to throw away a good book, or a good offer. {To throw back}. (a) To retort; to cast back, as a reply. (b) To reject; to refuse. (c) To reflect, as light. {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}. (a) To inject, as a fluid. (b) To put in; to deposit with others; to contribute; as, to throw in a few dollars to help make up a fund; to throw in an occasional comment. (c) To add without enumeration or valuation, as something extra to clinch a bargain. {To throw off}. (a) To expel; to free one's self from; as, to throw off a disease. (b) To reject; to discard; to abandon; as, to throw off all sense of shame; to throw off a dependent. (c) To make a start in a hunt or race. [Eng.]
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Throwing \Throw"ing\, a. & n. from {Throw}, v. {Throwing engine}, {Throwing mill}, {Throwing table}, [or] {Throwing wheel} (Pottery), a machine on which earthenware is first rudely shaped by the hand of the potter from a mass of clay revolving rapidly on a disk or table carried by a vertical spindle; a potter's wheel.