单词 | thrower |
释义 | throwern. 1. a. A person who turns wood or wooden objects on a lathe; = turner n.1 1a. Cf. throw v.1 7a. In later use historical and rare.Recorded earliest as a surname. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > worker > workers according to type of work > manual or industrial worker > workers with specific materials > woodworker > [noun] > turner thrower1242 turner1415 head-turner1853 chair turner1904 1242–3 Durham Eyre Roll in K. E. Bayley et al. Miscellanea (1916) II. 15 Emmam copthrawer [lit. ‘cup-thrower’]. 1483 Catholicon Anglicum (BL Add. 89074) (1881) 385 A Thrawer, tornator. 1604 in J. Harland House & Farm Accts. Shuttleworths (1856) I. 159 To the disshe-thrower, ix days throwing disshes and bassenes..iijs. 1620 in J. Harland House & Farm Accts. Shuttleworths (1856) II. 243 P'd to the thrower for the chessotts making. 1688 R. Holme Acad. Armory iii. 269/2 A Turners, or Throwers Tools. a1919 W. B. Kendall Forness Word Bk. (Cumbria County Archives, Barrow) (transcript of MS) Thraaer, a wood turner (old term). 2001 Daily Post (Liverpool) (Nexis) 18 Aug. (N. Wales ed.) The unique range of chairs, stools and cupboards manufactured by these turners—or throwers, as they were known because of their similarity to the potter and his wheel—were every bit as good as what had gone before. b. A person who moulds clay into shape using a potter's wheel, for the purpose of making a ceramic item. Cf. throw v.1 7b. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > worker > workers according to type of work > manual or industrial worker > producer > potter > [noun] pottera1225 crockerc1315 pot-makera1399 turner1601 pot-baker1621 pot-founder1631 cloamer1659 thrower1744 ceramist1855 throwster1894 ceramicist1930 1744 Indenture in E. Meteyard Life J. Wedgwood (1865) I. 222 To Learn his Art Mistery Occupation or Imployment of Thrower and Handleing which he the said Thomas Wedgwood now useth. 1790 in Guide Mus. Pract. Geol. (1859) 98 About 90 painters..and about 200 throwers, turners, &c., were employed under one roof. 1854 Jrnl. Soc. Arts 20 Jan. 149/2 The slip maker, the thrower,..and the various firers and oven men, all affirmed themselves to be perfect workmen. 1894 S. Smiles J. Wedgwood iii. 22 The thrower is the person who sits in his shed, near the potter's wheel, and forms by hand from the moist clay as it revolves, the crock, the butter pot, the porringer or other such wares. 1903 Daily Record (Glasgow) 1 July 4 The Potter's Wheel..is made of ash, and the thrower works upon it now in the same way as did the thrower thousands of years ago in Egypt. 1999 Crafts July 43/1 I'm not a thrower and I found hand-building too slow and labour-intensive. 2. a. A person who twists silk filaments into raw silk, or who twists together two or more single threads or yarns of silk to make silk thread or yarn. Cf. throwster n. 1, silk thrower n., throw v.1 8a. Now historical.Recorded earliest as a surname. ΘΚΠ the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > textile manufacture > manufacture of thread or yarn > [noun] > manufacture of silk thread or yarn > one who thrower1381 silk throwster1423 throwster1423 silk thrower1633 1381 in C. Fenwick Poll Taxes 1377, 1379 & 1381 (2001) II. 519/4 Agn' Thrower spynnere. 1662 Act 14 Chas. II c. 15 §5 There is a necessity lying upon the Silke throwers to deliver to theire Winders or Doublers considerable quantities of silke which being of good value is..many times..deceitfully and falsly purloined..to the great damage and sometimes the utter undoing of the Thrower whoe employes the said persons. ?1695 Reasons for incouraging Throwing of Silk (single sheet) The Throwers cannot Throw such Fine Italian Thrown Silks as are desired to be Imported over Land. 1711 Let. to Member October-club 45 Thousands of Looms must stand still upon this account, and almost numberless Throwers, Spinners, and other People..that work to every Loom. a1749 G. C. Deering Nottinghamia (1751) App. 305 The artisans of this trade [of framework knitting], do moreover employ a multitude of hands..about the preparation and finishing of the materials and ware they work: On which do compleatly subsist and thrive: The winders, throwers, sizers, seamers and trimmers thereof. 1870 Inq. Yorksh. Deaf & Dumb 68 [Employed] in the power-loom shades..as a thrower. 1999 Sentinel (Stoke-on-Trent) (Nexis) 18 Nov. 61 The Thrower worked with filaments of silk, converting them into silk thread. ΚΠ 1563 J. Davidson Answer to Tractiue Kennedy in D. Laing Misc. Wodrow Soc. (1844) I. 229 I wald we war judgit, quhidder we be thrawers of the Scripturs. 3. A person who or thing which throws something or someone (in various senses of throw v.1 III.).bomb thrower, dirt thrower, discus thrower, grenade-thrower, knife-thrower, stone thrower, etc.: see the first element. ΘΚΠ the world > movement > impelling or driving > projecting through space or throwing > [noun] > one who or that which warperOE castera1400 throwerc1450 flinger1598 tosser1612 jaculator1796 shy1884 shyer1895 slinger1902 c1450 J. Capgrave Solace of Pilgrims (Bodl. 423) (1911) 121 (MED) Tho wold he þat þe puple schuld þrow hem to ded with stones but þoo stones turned a geyn to þe þroweres and hurt hem greuously. 1519 W. Horman Vulgaria xxx. f. 253v Come nat vpon that horse back: for he is a great throware. 1552 R. Huloet Abcedarium Anglico Latinum Thrower of a stone with a hole therin for exercise, discobolus. 1579 T. North tr. Plutarch Liues 221 Throwers with slinges, archers, & other light armed men. 1613 T. Adams White Deuil 8 A stone throwne vp in a rash humour, fals on the throwers head, to teach him more wisdome. 1677 R. Plot Nat. Hist. Oxford-shire 10 If it [sc. a ball thrown against a wall] be thrown in an oblique line, it returns not to the thrower but to another place. 1748 P. Hiffernan Refl. Struct. & Passions Man ii. 51 Tho' the greater Part [of the dirt] hit their Antagonists, a Part still recoils on the Thrower. 1772 R. Warner tr. Plautus Parasite ii. iii, in B. Thornton et al. tr. Plautus Comedies IV. 144 The slaves too of buffoons, who play in th'streets, The throwers and the catchers of the ball. 1832 P. Egan Bk. Sports 344/1 Mr. K—ngsc—e comes next... An excellent thrower—a hundred yards clear. 1850 ‘Bat’ Cricketer's Man. (rev. ed.) 44 Long Leg must..be occupied by a good thrower. 1911 Times 3 Mar. 8/3 The thrower of the bomb was immediately arrested. 1961 New Statesman 22 Sept. 402/2 The thrower's..right hand lifts the lapels of the Uke's judogi—his canvas wrestling-jacket. 2015 Sunday Tel. (Mass.) (Nexis) 17 May (Sports section) 1 We have strong throwers, we have decent jumpers and we have really good sprinters and distance people. Compounds C1. With adverbs, forming compound agent nouns corresponding to adverbial combinations of the verb (see throw v.1 Phrasal verbs), as thrower-away, thrower-down, thrower-out, etc. ΘΚΠ the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > going or coming out > letting or sending out > [noun] > expulsion or driving out > specific people from a place, position, or possession > ignominious or forcible > one who throwera1616 bouncer1865 a1500 tr. Thomas à Kempis De Imitatione Christi (Trin. Dublin) (1893) 142 She is maistresse of trouþe,..þrower doun, dryuer awey of sorowe [L. fugatrix tristitiae]. a1616 W. Shakespeare Winter's Tale (1623) iii. iii. 28 Since Fate..Hath made thy person for the Thrower-out [printed Thower-out; corrected in 1632] Of my poore babe. View more context for this quotation 1641 J. Goodwin God Good Master xvii. 14 Therefore neither is the Justice or Righteousnesse of God a Thrower down, but a great builder up of dependence upon him. 1719 G. London & H. Wise J. de la Quintinie's Compl. Gard'ner (ed. 7) vi. 19 The Autumn Winds, those throwers down of Fruits. 1773 J. Allen Assoc. against Established Church Indefensible 26 We have no Ahaz, no thrower down nor changer of altars. 1860 T. P. Thompson Audi Alteram Partem (1861) III. cxxiv. 78 It may be late, but they have not been the throwers away. 1876 Eng. Mech. & World Sci. 22 Dec. 355/3 The ‘thrower up’ of the coin is an old soldier. 1899 37th Ann. Rep. Secretary Mich. State Board Agric. 699 In the winter-time it [sc. Lake Michigan] is a thrower-off of heat. 1963 N. Streatfeild Vicarage Family vi. 75 Some of the members of his men's society..are coming by train as throwers-out. If there is a rumpus it will be all over almost before it begins. 1995 Times (Nexis) 30 Oct. (Sport section) On Saturday, as a thrower-in, in loose play and as a potent runner with the ball, Greening had a storming game. 2000 Saga Mag. Feb. 13/1 There is nothing that turns a hoarder into a thrower-out, a compulsive spring-cleaner,..more than moving house. C2. thrower's wheel n. now chiefly historical = potter's wheel n. at potter n.1 Compounds 2a. ΚΠ 1849 A. Freitag Professions & Trades United States N. Amer. 295 The vessels are cut from the thrower's wheel with a small wire. 1881 G. A. Audsley & J. L. Bowes Keramic Art Japan 122 The ‘thrower's wheel’ used in Japan appears to be a very primitive contrivance. 1917 Pottery, Glass & Brass Salesman 24 May 13/1 Lifter, a tool roughly formed of two curved pieces of wood for lifting the ware from the thrower's wheel. 2004 Sentinel (Stoke-on-Trent) (Nexis) 25 Jan. (Nostalgia section) 16 John celebrated his 80th birthday by mounting a thrower's wheel and making several loving cups. 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