- OE. þrowenþrawen, to throw, to twist, AS. þrāwan to twist, to whirl; akin to D. draaijen, G. drehen, OHG. drājan, L. terebra an auger, gimlet, Gr. � to bore, to turn, � to pierce, � a hole. Cf. ThreadTriteTurnv. 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.
- 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.
- To drive by violence; as, a vessel or sailors may be thrown upon a rock.
- MilTo cause to take a strategic position; as, he threw a detachment of his army across the river.
- To overturn; to prostrate in wrestling; as, a man throws his antagonist.
- To cast, as dice; to venture at dice.Set less than thou throwest.
- To put on hastily; to spread carelessly.O'er his fair limbs a flowery vest he threw.
- To divest or strip one's self of; to put off.There the snake throws her enameled skin.
- PotteryTo form or shape roughly on a throwing engine, or potter's wheel, as earthen vessels.
- To give forcible utterance to; to cast; to vent.I have thrown A brave defiance in King Henry's teeth.
- To bring forth; to produce, as young; to bear; -- said especially of rabbits.
- 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.
