Word Meanings - YTHROWE - Book Publishers vocabulary database
p. p. of Throw. Chaucer.
Related words: (words related to YTHROWE)
- THROW
Pain; especially, pain of travail; throe. Spenser. Dryden. - THROWING
a. & n. from Throw, v. Throwing engine, Throwing mill, Throwing table, or Throwing wheel , 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 - THROW-OFF
A start in a hunt or a race. - THROWER
One who throws. Specifically: One who throws or twists silk; a throwster. One who shapes vessels on a throwing engine. - THROWN
a. & p. p. from Throw, v. Thrown silk, silk thread consisting of two or more singles twisted together like a rope, in a direction contrary to that in which the singles of which it is composed are twisted. M'Culloch. -- Thrown singles, silk thread - THROWSTER
One who throws or twists silk; a thrower. - THROWE
A turning lathe. - THROW-CROOK
An instrument used for twisting ropes out of straw. - THROWING STICK
An instrument used by various savage races for throwing a spear; -- called also throw stick and spear thrower. One end of the stick receives the butt of the spear, as upon a hook or thong, and the other end is grasped with the hand, which also holds - MISTHROW
To throw wrongly. - OUTTHROW
1. To throw out. Spenser. 2. To excel in throwing, as in ball playing. - TWO-THROW
Capable of being thrown or cranked in two directions, usually opposite to one another; as, a two-throw crank; a two-throw switch. Having two crank set near together and opposite to one another; as, a two-throw crank shaft. - DOWNTHROW
The sudden drop or depression of the strata of rocks on one side of a fault. See Throw, n. - YTHROWE
p. p. of Throw. Chaucer. - OVERTHROW
1. To throw over; to overturn; to upset; to turn upside down. His wife overthrew the table. Jer. Taylor. 2. To cause to fall or to fail; to subvert; to defeat; to make a ruin of; to destroy. When the walls of Thebes he overthrew. Dryden. that seeks - UPTHROW
To throw up. Drayton.