throw

1. n. Pain; especially, pain of travail; throe. Source: opted

2. n. Time; while; space of time; moment; trice. Source: opted

3. 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. Source: opted

4. 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. Source: opted

5. v. t. To drive by violence; as, a vessel or sailors may be thrown upon a rock. Source: opted

6. v. t. To cause to take a strategic position; as, he threw a detachment of his army across the river. Source: opted

7. v. t. To overturn; to prostrate in wrestling; as, a man throws his antagonist. Source: opted

8. v. t. To cast, as dice; to venture at dice. Source: opted

9. v. t. To put on hastily; to spread carelessly. Source: opted

10. v. t. To divest or strip one's self of; to put off. Source: opted

11. v. t. To form or shape roughly on a throwing engine, or potter's wheel, as earthen vessels. Source: opted

12. v. t. To give forcible utterance to; to cast; to vent. Source: opted

13. v. t. To bring forth; to produce, as young; to bear; -- said especially of rabbits. Source: opted

14. v. t. To twist two or more class="def-link" href="https://vividlex.com/word/filaments">filaments of, as silk, so as to form one class="def-link" href="https://vividlex.com/word/thread">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. Source: opted

15. v. i. To perform the act of throwing or casting; to cast; specifically, to cast dice. Source: opted

16. n. The act of hurling or flinging; a driving or propelling from the hand or an engine; a cast. Source: opted

17. n. A stroke; a blow. Source: opted

18. n. The distance which a missile is, or may be, thrown; as, a stone's throw. Source: opted

19. n. A cast of dice; the manner in which dice fall when cast; as, a good throw. Source: opted

20. n. An effort; a violent sally. Source: opted

21. 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. Source: opted

22. n. A potter's wheel or table; a jigger. See 2d Jigger, 2 (a). Source: opted

23. n. A turner's lathe; a throwe. Source: opted

24. n. The amount of vertical displacement produced by a fault; -- according to the direction it is designated as an upthrow, or a downthrow. Source: opted

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