1. throw - Noun
2. throw - Verb
A stroke; a blow.
Pain; especially, pain of travail; throe.
Time; while; space of time; moment; trice.
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.
To 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.
To divest or strip one's self of; to put off.
To form or shape roughly on a throwing engine, or potter's wheel, as earthen vessels.
To give forcible utterance to; to cast; to vent.
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.
To perform the act of throwing or casting; to cast; specifically, to cast dice.
The act of hurling or flinging; a driving or propelling from the hand or an engine; a cast.
The distance which a missile is, or may be, thrown; as, a stone's throw.
A cast of dice; the manner in which dice fall when cast; as, a good throw.
An effort; a violent sally.
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.
A potter's wheel or table; a jigger. See 2d Jigger, 2 (a).
A turner's lathe; a throwe.
The amount of vertical displacement produced by a fault; -- according to the direction it is designated as an upthrow, or a downthrow.
Source: Webster's dictionaryYou will never reach your destination if you stop and throw stones at every dog that barks. Winston Churchill
Throw moderation to the winds, and the greatest pleasures bring the greatest pains. Democritus
We cannot tear out a single page of our life, but we can throw the whole book in the fire. George Sand
Don't throw away your old shoes until you have got new ones. Dutch Proverb
Do not throw the arrow which will return against you. Kurdish Proverb
People who live in glass houses shouldn't throw stones. English Proverb