Definition of throw

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Throw (n.) The act of hurling or flinging; a driving or propelling from the hand or an engine; a cast.

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Jerk :: "Jerk (v. t.) To throw with a quick and suddenly arrested motion of the hand; as, to jerk a stone..
Skew :: Skew (adv.) To throw or hurl obliquely.
Misthrow :: Misthrow (v. t.) To throw wrongly.
Jackstraw :: "Jackstraw (n.) One of a set of straws of strips of ivory, bone, wood, etc., for playing a child's game, the jackstraws being thrown confusedly together on a table, to be gathered up singly by a hooked instrument, without touching or disturbing the rest of the pile. See Spilikin..
Embank :: Embank (v. t.) To throw up a bank so as to confine or to defend; to protect by a bank of earth or stone.
Deposition :: Deposition (n.) The act of depositing or deposing; the act of laying down or thrown down; precipitation.
Mangonel :: Mangonel (n.) A military engine formerly used for throwing stones and javelins.
Defeature :: Defeature (n.) Overthrow; defeat.
Deposit :: Deposit (v. t.) That which is deposited, or laid or thrown down; as, a deposit in a flue; especially, matter precipitated from a solution (as the siliceous deposits of hot springs), or that which is mechanically deposited (as the mud, gravel, etc., deposits of a river)..
Intrenchment :: Intrenchment (n.) Any defensive work consisting of at least a trench or ditch and a parapet made from the earth thrown up in making such a ditch.
Overset :: Overset (n.) An upsetting; overturn; overthrow; as, the overset of a carriage..
Overthrow :: Overthrow (n.) A faulty return of the ball by a fielder, so that the striker makes an additional run..
Loggat :: Loggat (n.) An old game in England, played by throwing pieces of wood at a stake set in the ground..
Bombardment :: Bombardment (n.) An attack upon a fortress or fortified town, with shells, hot shot, rockets, etc.; the act of throwing bombs and shot into a town or fortified place..
Engarboil :: Engarboil (v. t.) To throw into disorder; to disturb.
Grace :: Grace (n.) A play designed to promote or display grace of motion. It consists in throwing a small hoop from one player to another, by means of two sticks in the hands of each. Called also grace hoop or hoops..
Hurl :: Hurl (v. i.) To perform the act of hurling something; to throw something (at another).
Squaimous :: Squail (v. i.) To throw sticls at cocks; to throw anything about awkwardly or irregularly.
Lose :: Lose (v. t.) Not to employ; to employ ineffectually; to throw away; to waste; to squander; as, to lose a day; to lose the benefits of instruction..
Demolish :: Demolish (v. t.) To throw or pull down; to raze; to destroy the fabric of; to pull to pieces; to ruin; as, to demolish an edifice, or a wall..
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