throwingn.²

Brit.

/ˈθrəʊɪŋ/, U.S.

/ˈθroʊɪŋ/

Forms: see throw v.¹ and -ing suffix¹; also Middle English þraweynge, Middle English þroweinge, 1600s thraveing (Scottish), 1600s threughing (Scottish).

Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: throw v.¹, -ing suffix¹.

Etymology: < throw v.¹ + -ing suffix¹.

I. Senses relating to throw v.¹ I., II.

a. Scottish after Old English. The action of twisting, wringing, or contorting something, or of bending something out of shape. Also figurative: thwarting, crossing; quarrelling; vexation (also occasionally as a count noun). Now rare.Recorded earliest in throwing spindle n. at Compounds 3.

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the world > movement > motion in specific manner > writhing or twisting movement > [noun]

throwingOE

wringinga1375

twining1398

wrenching1398

wresting1398

writhing?a1400

wrying1566

wreathing1571

convolution1597

twinding1602

contortion1611

distorquement1628

distortion1718

twisting1725

quirling1754

circumgyration1843

the world > action or operation > difficulty > opposition > [noun]

contrariositya1340

adversitya1382

champertyc1386

contrariousness1398

thwartingc1430

contrariancec1450

contrariness?1530

withsitting1532

oppugning1535

opposition1548

oppugnation1563

thwartness1577

adverseness1580

crossing1580

breasting1594

antipathy1601

oppugnancy1609

affrontment1611

opposure1611

thortera1614

contrariancya1617

obstancy1616

oppositeness1619

contropposition1621

obstrigillation1623

opposing1624

hostility1632

opposal1638

crossness1641

affront1642

aversion1651

oppugnance1657

shock1664

opponency1727

counteraction1750

antagonism1797

throwing1816

oppositiveness1824

kick1839

variance1842

opposedness1853

againstness1909

hornet1921

adversariness1970

oppositionality1989

society > society and the community > dissent > quarrel or quarrelling > [noun]

sakea1000

chestc1000

pleac1275

threapa1300

noisec1300

checkc1330

debate1340

chopping1377

controversyc1384

briguea1398

tuilyieing1444

quarrellingc1460

lite1493

frayinga1500

falling out1539

square1545

overthwarting1552

mutiny1567

squaring1579

debatement1590

swaggeringa1596

quarrel1605

simultation1605

warbling1632

barrating1635

throwing1897

OE Aldhelm Glosses (Brussels 1650) in L. Goossens Old Eng. Glosses of MS Brussels, Royal Libr. 1650 (1974) 229 Calamistro : þrawincspinle, aco ferreo cum, hærnædla.

a1585 A. Montgomerie Flyting with Polwart (Tullibardine) in Poems (2000) I. 149 They deimit quhat deid it suld die..‘be thrawing of þe throt Lyk a tyk on a trie’.

1590–1 in R. Pitcairn Criminal Trials Scotl. (1833) I. ii. 219 The said Doctor was..used with the accustomed paine provided for those offences... First, by thrawing of his head with a rope, wherat he would confesse nothing.

1634 ‘Philiatreus’ Gen. Pract. Med. sig. C8 Losse of appetit or lothing of meat with a thrawing of the heart and sorenes of the head.

1766 A. Nicol Poems Several Subj. 124 'T would surely cost me many rout, Great threaping and hard thrawing.

1786 R. Burns Poems & Songs (1968) I. 161 It chanc'd the Stack..Was timmer-propt for thrawin.

1816 W. Scott Black Dwarf viii, in Tales of my Landlord 1st Ser. I. 156 Speak him fair, Hobbie; the like o' him will no bear thrawing.

1897 Daily Record (Glasgow) 17 Sept. 4 The present unsatisfactory condition of affairs is..due in great part to personal feeling and ‘thrawing’.

1958 T. G. Snoddy Green Loanings 18 Hae ye had thrawins in your dreams?

†b. Scottish. The action of twisting or distorting the meaning of something. Obsolete.

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1563 D. Fergusson Answer Epist. R. Benedict iv. f. 39^v I trust the Readers shal easylie perceaue bothe your ignorance..and otherwayes your malice in throwing of this Text.

1581 J. Hamilton Catholik Traictise v. f. 67 Thay teich na vther thing, bot yair auin phantasticall inuentions, and..ar not eschamit to call that..be thrawing and fals applying of the vord of god, the bricht licht of the euangell.

1640 R. Baillie Postscript Lysimachus Nicanor 11 in Ladensium Αὐτοκατάκρισις Your second parallel is whollie Jesuitick, the throwing of holie Scriptures unto your wicked Scoffes at the gracious Servants of God.

c. The twisting of silk filaments into raw silk, or the twisting together of two or more single threads or yarns of silk to make silk thread or yarn. Cf. throwsting n. Now historical.Recorded earliest in silk throwing n.

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the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > textile manufacture > manufacture of thread or yarn > [noun] > manufacture of silk thread or yarn

silk throwing1621

throwing1621

throwsting?1757

silk throwsting1785

organzining1789

1621 in J. Strype Stow's Surv. of London (rev. ed.) II. v. xiv. 234/1 Sundry Strangers that use the Trade of Silk-throwing.

1662 Act 14 Charles II c. 15 §9 in Statutes of Realm (1963) V. 409 The said Corporation of Silk throwers shall not..make any Orders Ordinances or By-Lawes to sett any Rates or Prices whatsoever upon the Throwing of Silk.

1728 E. Chambers Cycl. at Silk Throwed or Twisted Silks are such, as, beside their Spinning and Winding, have had their Milling or Throwing.

1791 J. Toulmin Hist. Taunton iii. 108 Machinery, on a small scale, for throwing of silk.

1844 G. Dodd Textile Manuf. Great Brit. vi. 192 The next process, called throwing, by which the two, three, five or a dozen threads are twisted firmly one round another.

1868 Rep. U.S. Commissioner Agric. 288 The twisting or ‘throwing’ process is done by passing the thread of raw silk from an upright bottom through the eye of a craned wire flyer, which rapidly spins with the top of the bobbin revolving above.

1912 Silk July 27/1 The waste made in throwing varies with the character of the silk in each lot.

1962 Econ. Hist Rev. 15 13 Water power had been used in..the throwing of silk for centuries.

2007 J. Field et al. Amer. Silk, 1830–1930 xiii. 103 In due course, the silk passed through more than a dozen steps, including washing, winding, cleaning, throwing (sometimes called spinning),..and reeling.

†a. The action or an act of turning wood, or a wooden item, on a lathe. Obsolete.

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Promptorium Parvulorum (Harl. 221) 493 Throwynge, or turnynge of vesselle, tornacio.

1483 Catholicon Anglicum (BL Add. 89074) (1881) 385 A Thrawynge, to[r]natura.

b. The action of moulding clay into shape using a potter's wheel, for the purpose of making a ceramic item.Recorded earliest in throwing clay n. at Compounds 3.

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society > occupation and work > industry > manufacturing processes > pottery-making or ceramics > [noun] > specific processes

fictilage1610

throwing1686

fritting1816

biscuiting1819

slapping1825

blunging1832

jigging1865

baking1868

bossinga1877

kaolinization1886

towing1892

jolleying1901

saggaring1901

mould-running1910

mullitization1939

double-dipping1940

Belgicization1942

prefiring1944

press-moulding1953

1686 R. Plot Nat. Hist. Staffs. iii. 122 All which they call throwing clays, because they..will work on the wheel.

1797 Encycl. Brit. XVII. 811/1 (Stoneware) The mixture..is beat..and then is in order for throwing.

1832 G. R. Porter Treat. Manuf. Porcelain & Glass 45 The operation of throwing consists in shaping such vessels as have a circular form, and is performed upon a machine called a potter's lathe.

a1882 H. Cole Fifty Years Public Work (1884) I. 105 Superintending the throwing, turning, modelling, and moulding of a tea service.

1952 M. Fieldhouse Pottery x. 60 Wide-bellied pots have a tendency to ‘squat’ just after throwing.

1971 P. Rawson Ceramics (1984) 46 Separate foot rims were thrown and luted on to the rounded bases of pots completely pinched off at the end of throwing.

2012 Grand Forks (N. Dakota) Herald (Nexis) 4 Apr. Several potters will demonstrate throwing and hand-building in the Muddy Waters work rooms.

II. Senses relating to throw v.¹ III.

3. The action or an act of throwing something or someone (in various senses of throw v.¹ III.).bomb-throwing, discus-throwing, knife-throwing, mud-throwing, stone-throwing, etc.: see the first element.

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the world > movement > impelling or driving > projecting through space or throwing > [noun]

warpinga1150

throwinga1325

casting1557

whirling1579

jaculation1608

tossing1711

a1325 (c1280) Southern Passion (Pepys 2344) (1927) l. 1085 (MED) Fram ham he wente þo þe þrowynge of a stone.

a1425 (?a1300) Kyng Alisaunder (Linc. Inn) (1952) l. 1607 Þe fotmen and þo on hors Trauaillid..Wiþ þrowyng [c1400 Laud þraweynge] and wiþ nymyng.

Promptorium Parvulorum (Harl. 221) 493 Throwynge, or castynge, jactura, jactus.

1487 (a1380) J. Barbour Bruce (St. John's Cambr.) xiii. 156 Thar wes..sic thrawing [1489 Adv. sic thrang] and sic thristing,..That it wes hydwiss for till her.

?1556 N. Smyth tr. Herodian Hist. i. f. xiii. By casting his dartes from aboue, as oute of a safe place, he shoulde rather shew his cunning of throwing then any valiauntnesse.

1591 P. S. tr. C. Paradin Heroicall Deuises 285 A certaine Indian..was of such dexteritie in throwing of a dart, that he could cast it a great way off thorugh [sic] a ring of small compasse.

a1649 W. Drummond Wks. (1711) 214 By throwing of Oat-Meal in the People's Eyes.

1699 B. E. New Dict. Canting Crew Green gown, a throwing of young Lasses on the Grass and Kissing them.

1715 ‘E. Standfast’ Let. Advice T. Brett 75 Fightings, Breakings of Windows, Throwings of Dirt, both immoral and real, and Threatnings of further Mischief.

1791 Barrington's Impartial Narr. Present State Botany Bay 22 None of them should be fired at..unless they provoked it, by throwing of spears.

1833 J. Nyren Young Cricketer's Tutor 90 Walker..began the system of throwing instead of bowling, now so much the fashion. At that time, it was esteemed foul play.

1897 Daily News 1 Nov. 5/2 The throwing nuisance, which has for years been the scandal of English cricket.

1935 Jrnl. Health & Physical Educ. Mar. 54/1 Two of the tests measure the fundamental skill of throwing and catching.

1992 K. C. A. Smith & R. E. Alley Electr. Circuits (1996) 286 The constant A depends upon the conditions obtaining at the instant the change occurs (e.g. the throwing of a switch) that initiates the transient behaviour.

2017 Chicago Daily Herald (Nexis) 16 Mar. (Sports section) 1 The Cubs will gladly take Heyward's strong defense, accurate throwing, smart baserunning and overall team leadership ability.

Phrases

throwing at cocks: a custom or traditional game in which sticks are thrown at a cockerel tied to a post, formerly traditionally associated with Shrovetide; = cock-throwing n. Now historical.

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society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > fighting or baiting animals > cock-throwing > [noun]

cock-thrashing1409

throwing at cocks1612

cock-throwing1650

cockshy1815

cockshying1830

1612 T. Taylor Αρχὴν Ἁπάντων: Comm. Epist. Paul to Titus i. xv. 304 (margin) Throwing at cocks an inhumane sport.

1669 E. Chamberlayne Angliæ Notitia 46 The Citizens and Peasants have..Throwing at Cocks, Shuttle-cock, Bowling,..and Ringing of Bells.

1709 J. Edwards Preacher: Third Pt. 171 Not only Cock-fighting but Throwing at Cocks is an Unlawful Sport.

c1770 (title) A friendly admonition against throwing at Cocks and of Cockfighting.

1812 Belfast Monthly Mag. Dec. 454/1 That..more cruel custom of throwing at cocks on Shrove-Tuesday, has been laid aside, in most places.

1865 Notts. Guardian 3 Mar. 10/4 In days not very long gone by, the inhuman sport of throwing at cocks was practised at Shrovetide.

1969 V. Bartlett Past of Pastimes viii. 100 ‘Cocking’ or ‘cock-fighting’, has, of course, lasted much longer than ‘throwing at cocks.’

2012 P. D. Smith City vii. 273 ‘Throwing at Cocks’, or throwing objects at tethered birds, was popular in Chaucer's day.

Compounds

C1. With following adverbs, forming nouns of action corresponding to adverbial combinations of the verb (see throw v.¹ Phrasal verbs).

throwing about n.

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a1616 W. Shakespeare Hamlet (1623) ii. ii. 263/1 Oh there ha's beene much throwing about of Braines.

1655 H. More Antidote against Atheism (ed. 2) App. iii. ix. 218 The watch-men of the Town..heard..the fallings and throwings of things about.

1870 Baltimore Med. Jrnl. 1 22 Miss C——, whilst eating fruit with friends, was amused by the throwing about of the seed of the watermelon.

1922 World's Work Feb. 427/1 All the throwing about of cream tarts and the like in the early films.

2003 National Assembly Official Rep. (Republic of Kenya) 9 Oct. 2934 You will recall what transpired here yesterday, including the throwing about of names on points of order.

throwing aside n.

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1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 281/1 Throwyng asyde.., debaux.

1665 M. Nedham Medela Medicinæ 468 A throwing aside of the old Principles and Methods.

1838 Extra Globe (Washington, D.C.) 17 May 116/1 The indispensable business of the body compelled the throwing aside of the whole subject.

1918 New Republic 21 Sept. 214/2 A throwing aside of everything for which we fight.

1986 Daily Mail 16 Dec. 18/1 To make us all feel responsible for the wanton throwing aside of nature's laws.

throwing away n.

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1569 T. Copley tr. St. Augustine Of Faith & Wks. viii, in R. Pole Treatie Iustification ii. f. 13 Doe ye penance? For therein is expressed a throwing away of the olde life, that they which be baptised, may put on a newe.

1665 P. Williams Φιλανθρωπια viii. §3. 127 It may seem, in the eyes of vain and foolish men, a throwing away of their life.

a1817 J. Austen Persuasion (1818) III. iv. 59 To..involve herself at nineteen in an engagement..would be, indeed, a throwing away, which she grieved to think of!

1848 J. J. S. Wharton Law Lexicon 335/2 Jactus mercium (a throwing away of goods), jetsam.

1934 A. Nin Let. 27 Dec. in A. Nin & H. Miller Literate Passion (1989) 275 That throwing away of whatever you have wanted for a long time.

1991 P. Barker Regeneration i. 8 The throwing away of the medal still struck him as odd.

throwing back n.

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1623 J. Weemes Christian Synagogue iii. iii. 283 Contrary to this is retortion; the throwing backe the sinne vpon the sinner himselfe.

1713 Spectator No. 485. 66 A judicious throwing back of his Perriwig.

1799 J. Adams Anal. Horsemanship 92 He readily Stops at the easy throwing back of the body.

1877 Appletons' Jrnl. Aug. 125/1 The gentlemen..executed a more or less elaborate double-shuffle, interspersed with occasional throwings-back of the shoulders.

1937 Rotarian Feb. 38/2 A yodelling, a shining of eyes, a throwing back of hair.

2014 A. M. Butler Eternal Sunshine of Spotless Mind v. 72 His laborious throwing back of the bedclothes.

throwing down n.

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a1387 J. Trevisa tr. R. Higden Polychron. (St. John's Cambr.) (1869) II. 359 Of þe whiche dedes... Þe nynþe þe þrowynge doun of Anteus, þe geant of Libya, þat took aȝen myȝte and strengþe as ofte as he touched þe erþe.

Promptorium Parvulorum (Harl. 221) 493 Throwynge downe, fro hey place, precipicium.

1518 in I. S. Leadam Select Cases Star Chamber (1911) II. 131 Yf they had known the throwyng downe of the seyd iij gappes.

1652 J. Gadbury Philastrogus Knavery Epitomized 12 The throwing down of Art, and the dishonour of God that gives the Art.

1722 J. Stevens Hist. Antient Abbeys I. 207/1 The dissolving of the Monastery, and throwing down of the Church.

1851 Jrnl. Royal Agric. Soc. 12 i. 88 These straining efforts are sometimes so energetic as to cause ‘throwing down’ of the uterus.

1915 Central Law Jrnl. 80 382/1 The throwing down of the match was the cause of the accident.

2015 Daily Mail (Nexis) 24 July The throwing down of gauntlets.

throwing in n.

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?c1425 tr. Guy de Chauliac Grande Chirurgie (Paris) (1971) 524 (MED) Maistre Jordan made iniecciouns, i. þrowynges yn, & siryngaciouns within þe bledder with bawme.

1605 R. Dallington Suruey Great Dukes State Tuscany 37 They know when it is sufficiently boiled by the throwing in of an Egge, for if it sinck, then is it not yet perfect.

1779 Philos. Trans. 1778 (Royal Soc.) 68 196 In Henry the fourth's time the throwing in of dung and other nastiness into the foss was forbid under the severe fine of one hundred pounds.

1810 T. Coke Hist. W. Indies II. xxiii. 229 General Meyers..omitted the throwing-in of provisions.

1886 Proc. Engineers' Club Philadelphia 5 158 The lid is taken off, and the throwing in of the coal commenced.

1948 Billboard 3 Jan. 66/3 To say that roller skating has to depend exclusively on juvenile patronage is an attitude of defeat, a throwing in of the sponge.

2004 P. Edwards Statesman's Sci. i. 32 Coleridge's dualist view of dynamic relations was not a throwing in of the towel.

throwing off n.

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1646 N. Lockyer Eng. faithfully watcht With 268 A throwing off, of that which hath had its demonstration and commendation for vertue.

1785 M. Garthshore in Med. Communications 2 39 It terminated by the throwing off of sloughs.

1837 Monthly Rev. Nov. 344 The waste of the body, the throwings off, as we would express it.

1948 B. Griffith Amer. Me i. ii. 58 The casual ‘throwing-off’ of words and vowels is typical of Pachucos.

2004 Times (Nexis) 21 Feb. 39 It is more a change of thinking and tactics that is required, a greater self-belief and a throwing-off of the conservative shackles.

throwing out n.

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a1382 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Bodl. 959) (1969) Lament. ii. 14 Þi prophetis seeȝen to þee false & foole thingis..þei seeȝen..to þee false takingis to & þrowingis out [L. eiectiones].

?c1425 tr. Guy de Chauliac Grande Chirurgie (Paris) (1971) 368 (MED) Þe secounde entencioun..was þrowynge oute of þe gendred matere.

?1560 T. Norton Orations of Arsanes sig. S.j The throwing out of a rope, or reaching of a poale may saue him.

1660 C. Burges Reasons shewing Necessity of Reformation sig. A2 Nor will it be unseasonable to reflect upon the throwing out of many worthy Ministers in Q. Elizabeths reign.

1772 F. Wollaston in Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 63 68 I have set down the throwing-out of the pendulum,..on a scale behind it.

1838 Chambers's Edinb. Jrnl. 24 Nov. 347/2 The resting of the rope on the ground, acts, in short, like the throwing out of ballast.

1938 Motor Boating Dec. 10/2 The tanker was at fault because its excessive speed and improper handling necessitated the throwing out of the anchor.

2012 Daily Tel. (Nexis) 11 Apr. 12 If there was anything too extreme going on, it would have been a throwing out, not a scolding.

throwing over n.

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1571 Dict. French & Eng. sig. Q.iv Iectement par dessus, a throwing ouer.

1737 H. Bracken Farriery Improved xiv. 212 It is very possible for a Horse to get such a Bruise or Crush upon his Eye, in casting or throwing over.

1851 J. Pycroft Cricket Field x. 196 Throwing over does sometimes answer; but a cunning runner will get in your way.

1901 J. B. Ames Sel. Cases Law of Admiralty v. 324 The passengers and crew from the Gratitude could not have been taken on board the bark at all without a throwing over of the cargo.

2015 Spectator (Nexis) 23 May This throwing over was the great trauma of Pym's life.

throwing up n.

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1572 J. Bridges tr. R. Gwalther Hundred, Threescore & Fiftene Homelyes vppon Actes Apostles xxii. cxlvi. 796 They handle their matter..with clamours, with casting away their clothes, with throwing vp of duste [L. pulveris iactatione], and other lyke furious gestures.

1679 Observ. Last Dutch Wars 12 The throwing up of Ashes towards Heaven.

1754 W. Horsburgh Exper. & Observ. upon Hartfell Spaw 51 These symptoms, viz. the constant throwing up of all he took, headach, cough, watchfulness, along with pains in his breast.

1853 Jrnl. Soc. Arts 12 Aug. 472/1 Invention of a new or improved apparatus to prevent the throwing up of mud by the wheels of vehicles.

1894 Forum (U.S.) Aug. 732 There is no throwing up of the hands in despair.

1992 R. A. Young Bear Black Eagle Child 9 Try not to think of throwing up, no matter how terrible the taste.

2012 C. P. Curtis Mighty Miss Malone ix. 80 An explosion of cheers and a huge throwing-up of hands.

C2. attributive. Designating a weapon or tool designed for throwing through the air, as throwing axe, throwing club, throwing knife, throwing net, throwing spear, etc.Some of the more established compounds of this type are treated at Compounds 3. See also throwing-stick n.

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1598 W. Phillip tr. J. H. van Linschoten Disc. Voy. E. & W. Indies ii. 200/1 Besides these kniues, they vse throwing kniues [Du. werp Messen], with three or foure poyntes, being verie dangerous.

1770 J. Cook Jrnl. 23 Aug. (1955) I. 396 By the help of these throwing sticks..they will hit a Mark at the distance of 40 or 50 Yards.

1845 C. H. Smith in Kitto's Cycl. Biblical Lit. I. at Arms Among these [instruments at first employed in the chase] were the club and the throwing-bat.

1880 J. G. Wood Uncivilized Races Men (new ed.) I. lxxii. 729/1 At fig. 6..is seen a very formidable variety of the throwing-spear.

1895 Cornhill Mag. Dec. 634 The soldiers..had brought him down with throwing-clubs.

1898 A. J. Butler tr. F. Ratzel Hist. Mankind III. 72 Throwing-knives are among the notable properties of the races of the Monbuttu type north of the Congo.

1902 L. Loat in G. A. Boulenger Zool. Egypt, Fishes Nile (1907) Introd. 21 At Cairo..the commonest net of all is a circular throwing-net,..with an average circumference of about 50 feet and a half-inch mesh.

1903 R. Kipling in Windsor Mag. Sept. 370/1 Tegumai..was holding his stone throwing-hatchet in one hand.

1919 Munsey's Mag. Oct. 588/1 In the depths of the chest behind the racks were a number of broad-headed throwing-axes.

1950 H. L. Lorimer Homer & Monuments viii. 452 In Homeric warfare the pair of throwing-spears is normal.

2014 Stirling Times (Perth) (Nexis) 1 July 14 He was subsequently stopped and searched and found to be in possession of a throwing knife.

C3.

throwing arm n. the arm that a person uses, or ordinarily uses, to throw with; hence often used to refer to a person's ability or skill in throwing.

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society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > ball game > [noun] > player > throwing arm

throwing arm1887

1887 Cleveland (Ohio) Plain Dealer 7 Apr. 6/2 At that time his throwing arm was of little use.

1887 Daily Picayune (New Orleans) 14 Nov. 3/1 Shea was effective,..and McVey gave him reliable support and had his throwing arm with him.

1972 J. Mosedale Football ii. 19 Thanks to his accurate throwing arm, New Orleans was..one of the darkest cities in America.

1977 World of Cricket Monthly June 47/2 He had one of the strongest throwing arms [printed arm] ever seen in Australian cricket.

2001 Times 2 Apr. (Sport section) s14/4 He is still an amazingly nimble and keen-eyed fielder at short-stop and possesses an unerringly accurate throwing arm.

throwing balls n. a weapon used as a missile consisting of two or more balls or stones connected by strong cord; = bolas n.

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the world > food and drink > hunting > equipment > trap or snare > [noun] > other devices

wile1677

bolas1843

throwing balls1882

killer1892

society > armed hostility > military equipment > weapon > missile > [noun] > bolas

bolas1843

throwing balls1882

1882 C. T. Gatty Catal. Mayer Mus. Pt. II: Prehist. Antiq. & Ethnogr. 17/2 Bolas, or throwing balls, of walrus-ivory, attached to strings of animal fibre with feathers at the end, for throwing and entangling birds.

1910 Harper's Mag. June 60/2 Through the long Patagonian winter the shepherds and gauchoes busy themselves making..bolas (throwing-balls).

2001 D. Bonnette Origin Human Species xiv. 135 In 1956, G. H. R. von Koenigswald reported finding extremely primitive throwing balls, or bolas, in Olduvai Gorge's Bed I.

throwing board n. a short wooden implement used to propel a dart or spear; = throwing-stick n. 1.

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society > armed hostility > military equipment > weapon > sharp weapon > spear or lance > [noun] > specific for throwing > hurled with throwing-stick > spear-throwing stick

throwing-stick1770

woomera1817

spear-thrower1827

throwing board1832

woomerang1849

throw-stick1869

atlatl1871

1832 Bell's Life in London 9 Sept. T— sends you a kangaroo skin, two spears, and one throwing board; the latter article the natives never part with but with life.

1932 Amer. Jrnl. Archaeol. 36 488 Except for the throwing-board, which he believes to be a local Eskimo invention..he does not discuss those objects capable of being preserved.

1990 S. Harrison Mother Earth Father Sky ii. xxxi. 212 I have carved outlines of seals on my throwing board.

throwing clay n. any clay body suitable for throwing using a potter's wheel, being highly plastic and strong.

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society > occupation and work > materials > raw material > clay > [noun] > for making pottery

eartha1350

potter's clay?a1425

potter's earth1440

pot earth?a1450

argil1530

pot clay1674

throwing clay1686

figuline1859

pottery clay1869

1686 R. Plot Nat. Hist. Staffs. iii. 122 All which they call throwing clays, because they are of a closer texture, & will work on the wheel.

1963 E. Röttger Creative Clay Design 93 Natural clays and prepared throwing clays.

1972 K. Lynch What Time is this Place? i. 12 The village potteries of North Staffordshire had the geological advantage of a great variety of throwing clays located on a rich coalfield.

2014 Tablelands Advertiser (Austral.) (Nexis) 15 Aug. 16 I use a fine throwing clay.., I don't like thick and heavy work like the old days.

throwing engine n. now historical a machine that provides a rotary motion for twisting silk or for throwing pottery.

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society > occupation and work > equipment > pottery manufacturing equipment > [noun] > potter's lathe

potter's lathe1728

throwing wheel1746

throwing engine1747

lathe1773

jigger1825

jolley?1881

kick-wheel1893

1747 R. Campbell London Tradesman App. 322 Of Loom-Makers. This is a Tradesman composed of the Smith, Joiner and Carpenter; he is employed in making Weaving Looms, Throwing Engines for Silk Throwsters, and several Engines for Mechanic Uses.

1825 ‘J. Nicholson’ Operative Mechanic 462 A strap is attached from the driven cone to the spindle of the throwing-engine.

1982 B. S. Trinder Making Industr. Landscape iii. 83 In 1772, after a visit to Cornwall, John Turner of Lane End used a Newcomen engine to pump water back over a wheel, which he employed to power throwing engines and lathes.

throwing house n. now chiefly historical an outbuilding in a pottery factory set aside for the process of throwing pottery.

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1747 Indenture in Trans. Eng. Ceramic Circle (1972) 8 176 All those Pot ovens houses Buildings Ware houses Work houses Throwing houses With the Appurtenances in the holding of Thomas Whieldon.

1814 Staffs. Advertiser 6 Aug. 2/4 To be sold by auction... All that capital set of China Works, situate at Lane Delph..consisting of one Slip House, two Throwing Houses, large enough to contain four Lathes, [etc.].

1971 L. Weatherill Pottery Trade ii. 19 Aaron Shaw..had tubs, a cistern, clay, and slip in his throwing house.

2006 P. Wilkinson & P. Ashley Eng. Buildings Bk. 237/2 There were thousands of bottle kilns and throwing houses in the towns known collectively as ‘The Potteries’.

throwing iron n. a throwing weapon having a projecting metal blade or point, formerly used in various cultures in central Africa; (now also) = throwing star n. [Originally (with reference to Africa) after German Wurfeisen (1879 in this sense in the work reviewed in quot. 1880; 15th cent. in more general use).]

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society > armed hostility > military equipment > weapon > missile > [noun] > knife-like missile

throwing iron1880

1880 Nature 1 Jan. 199/1 Each of the performers..seizes his spear and throwing-iron (a curious boomerang-like weapon with a long protecting prong on the concave margin).

1898 A. J. Butler tr. F. Ratzel Hist. Mankind III. 71 The indispensable weapon was the throwing-iron, of which many carried several specimens,..in sheaths of hide.

1987 Jrnl. Afr. Hist. 28 286 Spears and throwing irons were kept for close quarters.

2009 Chronicle (Toowoomba, Queensland) (Nexis) 17 July 3 Chinese throwing irons and other martial arts-style weapons had been seized by police.

throwing machine n. now historical a machine for twisting raw silk into thread.

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1776 Daily Advertiser 2 Jan. To be Sold by Auction.., The Houshold Furniture and working Utensils of a Manufacturer; consisting of a curious Throwing Machine, two Clouding Tables.., &c.

1843 Penny Mag. Suppl. Apr. 166/2 The ‘throwing-machine’..is almost exactly the same in principle as the ‘spinning-machine’.

2007 C. Gleason Biogr. Silk 22/1 Throwing machines were used to twist several silk filaments into one stronger thread that could be used for weaving.

throwing mill n. †(a) = throwing machine n. (obsolete); (b) a mill or factory for the manufacture of thrown silk (now historical).

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the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > textile manufacture > manufacture of thread or yarn > [noun] > manufacture of silk thread or yarn > machine for

throwing mill1719

1719 Weekly-Jrnl. 22 Aug. Turners of the Throwing Mill.

1724 D. Defoe Tour Great Brit. I. ii. 83 Here is a fine Engine..which was done by Mr. Serocoal, the same who fell into the River at the Throwing-Mill at Derby.

1831 G. R. Porter Treat. Silk Manuf. 201 Spinning or twisting the thread..wound upon the bobbins, is performed with the throwing mill.

1851 L. D. B. Gordon in Art Jrnl. Illustr. Catal. p. ii. **/2 The factories in which raw silk is spun into silk-thread for weaving are called throwing mills.

2007 Derby Evening Tel. (Nexis) 16 Aug. 27 He added a seven-storey throwing mill and a lower weaving mill.

throwing power n. (a) the power used or exerted in throwing something; the force with which something is thrown; (b) the ability of an electrodepositing solution to produce an even coating on an irregularly shaped object; cf. throw v.¹ 31.

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the world > matter > chemistry > ions, ionization, or electrolysis > [noun] > electrolysis > miscellaneous other related concepts

throwing power1854

mobility1895

oxidation potential1900

single-electrode1913

Wien effect1929

the world > matter > physics > electromagnetic radiation > electricity > electrolysis > [noun] > production of even coating

throwing power1854

1854 Art Jrnl. Feb. 36/3 In the..factories where steam power is used, all the throwing power proceeds from double cones with straps working at the larger ends.

1868 Trans. Ethnol. Soc. London 6 255 The inland man..probably first invented the sling as an assister of the throwing power of the arm.

1915 Trans. Amer. Electrochem. Soc. 27 97 The ‘throwing’ power of solution I B is remarkably satisfactory.

1966 D. G. Brandon Mod. Techniques Metallogr. 5 Electropolishing..may even give a poor macropolish as a result of..poor throwing power in the electrolyte.

1970 Guardian 22 Aug. 13/10 Such is the throwing power of the European women.

2004 Water Environment Res. 76 1660 The throwing power tended to be somewhat inferior when soluble copper anodes were employed.

throwing room n. a room set aside for the process of throwing pottery.

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society > occupation and work > workplace > place where specific things are made > [noun] > pottery > room or building in

treading-room1752

throwing room1764

placing house1875

1764 V. Green Surv. Worcester 232 You are first conducted into the counting-house.., and from thence into the throwing-room, where the ware is first formed from the clay.

1843 G. Dodd in Penny Mag. Feb. 74/1 We visit the ‘throwing-room,’ where the remarkable process of forming circular vessels is conducted.

1913 Motor World 2 Oct. 56 The cylindrical blanks of clay that come from the throwing room are graded down to uniform dimensions before being passed on to the turning department.

1991 St. Louis (Missouri) Post-Dispatch (Nexis) 28 Oct. 1 d (caption) Warren MacKenzie in the throwing room at his workshop in Stillwater, Minn.

2003 Jrnl. Archaeol. Method & Theory 10 233 Their families did not own enough land by their homes for even a separate throwing room.

† throwing spindle n. Obsolete rare a curling iron.Only in Old English.

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OE Aldhelm Glosses (Brussels 1650) in L. Goossens Old Eng. Glosses of MS Brussels, Royal Libr. 1650 (1974) 229 Calamistro : þrawincspinle, aco ferreo cum, hærnædla.

OE Aldhelm Glosses (Brussels 1650) in L. Goossens Old Eng. Glosses of MS Brussels, Royal Libr. 1650 (1974) 479 [Antiae..cincinni] calamistro crispantur : mid þrawincspilnle [OE Digby 146 mid þrawingspinle] synt aþrawene.

throwing star n. a weapon in the form of a small star having a number of projecting blades or points, designed to be thrown with a spinning motion.Throwing stars are particularly associated with Japanese martial arts, esp. ninjutsu. Cf. shuriken n.

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1974 J. Nazel Slick Revenge xi. 135 He scooped up four throwing stars, careful not to cut himself on the pointed protrusions, and slipped them into his jacket pocket.

1976 Criminal Justice Jrnl. 1 51 As used in this section a ‘Chinese throwing star’ means any instrument, without handles, consisting of a metal plate having three or more radiating points with one or more sharp edges and designed in the shape of a polygon, trefoil, cross, star, diamond, or other geometric shape for use as a weapon for throwing.

1985 N.Y. Times 4 Oct. a30/1 Shurikens—palm-sized throwing stars with razor points—spin through the air like little buzz saws.

2012 Black Belt May 53 (advt.) Professional throwing stars..super sharp set of 4 with a nylon carry case.

† throwing table n. Obsolete = potter's wheel n. at potter n.¹ Compounds 2a.

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society > occupation and work > equipment > pottery manufacturing equipment > [noun] > potter's lathe > horizontal wheel of

wheela1382

potter's wheel1609

whirling-table1764

throwing table1855

slow wheel1925

1855 Trans. Hist. Soc. Lancs. & Cheshire 7 207 Here has been introduced one of the throwing tables for making hollow ware.

1875 E. H. Knight Amer. Mech. Dict. III. 2564/1 Throwing-table, a revolving, horizontal table on which earthen vessels are shaped by the potter.

1924 Times 13 June 7/1 Electrically operated lathes and ‘throwing’ tables.

throwing wheel n. = potter's wheel n. at potter n.¹ Compounds 2a; (also sometimes, as in quot. 1825) a driving wheel for this.

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society > occupation and work > equipment > pottery manufacturing equipment > [noun] > potter's lathe

potter's lathe1728

throwing wheel1746

throwing engine1747

lathe1773

jigger1825

jolley?1881

kick-wheel1893

1746 Westm. Jrnl. 22 Mar. Sundry Warehouses, Work-shops, Lath's, Throwing-Wheels, and other Utensils useful in making fine Earthen-Ware or China.

1825 ‘J. Nicholson’ Operative Mechanic 461 The throwing-wheel, or, with greater propriety, the throwing-engine, consists of a large vertical wheel; having a winch or handle affixed to it, and a groove on the rim for the introduction of a cord [etc.].

2014 M. Hatch Maker Movement Manifesto i. 14 His dad was a ceramic artist and had throwing wheels, clay, and amazing glazes around his house.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2018; most recently modified version published online June 2022).

单词	throwing
释义	† throwingn.¹ Forms: Old English throuung (Northumbrian), Old English þreowung (rare), Old English þrowing, Old English þrowonge (accusative, probably transmission error), Old English ðroung (Northumbrian), Old English ðrouung (chiefly Northumbrian), Old English ðrowng (Northumbrian), Old English ðrowungg- (inflected form, rare), Old English–early Middle English þrowung, Old English–early Middle English ðrowung, late Old English þruwung, early Middle English drowing (probably transmission error), early Middle English þrowegunge, early Middle English þroweinge, early Middle English þrowenge, early Middle English þroweunge, early Middle English þrowinge, early Middle English þrowinnge (Ormulum), early Middle English þrowungæ, early Middle English þrowunge, early Middle English þrowying, early Middle English þruwinge, early Middle English ðhrowing, Middle English þrowynge. Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: throw v.², -ing suffix¹. Etymology: < throw v.² + -ing suffix¹. Compare classical Latin passio suffering, especially in its post-classical Latin sense denoting the sufferings of Jesus (see passion n.). Obsolete. Suffering; spec. the suffering of death. Esp. with reference to the Passion of Christ. ΘΚΠ the world > life > death > [noun] > death throes throwingeOE death throec1300 throec1300 stour1340 bale-stourc1400 gasping1440 agonya1500 (one's) last gasp1564 death flurry1831 society > faith > aspects of faith > Bible, Scripture > biblical events > [noun] > crucifixion throwingeOE rood-pinec1175 passionc1200 crossc1380 sacrificea1450 the Crucifixion1649 society > faith > worship > martyrdom > [noun] > one who undergoes > suffering undergone by throwingeOE passionc1200 sufferingc1340 society > faith > worship > liturgical year > feast, festival > specific Christian festivals > Holy Week > [noun] throwingeOE passionOE paschOE swiwike?c1225 pace1385 Passion Weekc1460 Great Week1612 Holy Week1710 Semana Santa1831 passion-tide1847 Maundy-week1868 eOE King Ælfred tr. Gregory Pastoral Care (Hatton) (1871) xviii. 137 Ic, eower emnðeowa & Cristes ðrowunge gewita [L. testis Christi passionum]. OE Ælfric Catholic Homilies: 2nd Ser. (Cambr. Gg.3.28) xxxiv. 292 Ða nyste heora nan his naman to secgenne, ne on hwæs timan he ðrowunge underhnige. c1175 Ormulum (Burchfield transcript) l. 15205 Inn till þrowinnge & pine. a1200 MS Trin. Cambr. in R. Morris Old Eng. Homilies (1873) 2nd Ser. 81 His holie þrowegunge þe he wolde þolien. a1300 Passion our Lord l. 4 in R. Morris Old Eng. Misc. (1872) 37 Cristes þruwinge þet he þolede her. a1325 (c1250) Gen. & Exod. (1968) l. 1317 Wið-uten long ðhrowing and figt. a1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomaeus Anglicus De Proprietatibus Rerum (BL Add. 27944) (1975) II. xviii. x. 1136 Þerfore if þe oon is yslawe þe other pursueþ him þat slew þat oþer wiþ so bisy wreche and vengeaunce þat passeþ þrowynge. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2018; most recently modified version published online September 2021). throwingn.² Brit. /ˈθrəʊɪŋ/, U.S. /ˈθroʊɪŋ/ Forms: see throw v.¹ and -ing suffix¹; also Middle English þraweynge, Middle English þroweinge, 1600s thraveing (Scottish), 1600s threughing (Scottish). Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: throw v.¹, -ing suffix¹. Etymology: < throw v.¹ + -ing suffix¹. I. Senses relating to throw v.¹ I., II. 1. a. Scottish after Old English. The action of twisting, wringing, or contorting something, or of bending something out of shape. Also figurative: thwarting, crossing; quarrelling; vexation (also occasionally as a count noun). Now rare.Recorded earliest in throwing spindle n. at Compounds 3. ΘΚΠ the world > movement > motion in specific manner > writhing or twisting movement > [noun] throwingOE wringinga1375 twining1398 wrenching1398 wresting1398 writhing?a1400 wrying1566 wreathing1571 convolution1597 twinding1602 contortion1611 distorquement1628 distortion1718 twisting1725 quirling1754 circumgyration1843 the world > action or operation > difficulty > opposition > [noun] contrariositya1340 adversitya1382 champertyc1386 contrariousness1398 thwartingc1430 contrariancec1450 contrariness?1530 withsitting1532 oppugning1535 opposition1548 oppugnation1563 thwartness1577 adverseness1580 crossing1580 breasting1594 antipathy1601 oppugnancy1609 affrontment1611 opposure1611 thortera1614 contrariancya1617 obstancy1616 oppositeness1619 contropposition1621 obstrigillation1623 opposing1624 hostility1632 opposal1638 crossness1641 affront1642 aversion1651 oppugnance1657 shock1664 opponency1727 counteraction1750 antagonism1797 throwing1816 oppositiveness1824 kick1839 variance1842 opposedness1853 againstness1909 hornet1921 adversariness1970 oppositionality1989 society > society and the community > dissent > quarrel or quarrelling > [noun] sakea1000 chestc1000 pleac1275 threapa1300 noisec1300 checkc1330 debate1340 chopping1377 controversyc1384 briguea1398 tuilyieing1444 quarrellingc1460 lite1493 frayinga1500 falling out1539 square1545 overthwarting1552 mutiny1567 squaring1579 debatement1590 swaggeringa1596 quarrel1605 simultation1605 warbling1632 barrating1635 throwing1897 OE Aldhelm Glosses (Brussels 1650) in L. Goossens Old Eng. Glosses of MS Brussels, Royal Libr. 1650 (1974) 229 Calamistro : þrawincspinle, aco ferreo cum, hærnædla. a1585 A. Montgomerie Flyting with Polwart (Tullibardine) in Poems (2000) I. 149 They deimit quhat deid it suld die..‘be thrawing of þe throt Lyk a tyk on a trie’. 1590–1 in R. Pitcairn Criminal Trials Scotl. (1833) I. ii. 219 The said Doctor was..used with the accustomed paine provided for those offences... First, by thrawing of his head with a rope, wherat he would confesse nothing. 1634 ‘Philiatreus’ Gen. Pract. Med. sig. C8 Losse of appetit or lothing of meat with a thrawing of the heart and sorenes of the head. 1766 A. Nicol Poems Several Subj. 124 'T would surely cost me many rout, Great threaping and hard thrawing. 1786 R. Burns Poems & Songs (1968) I. 161 It chanc'd the Stack..Was timmer-propt for thrawin. 1816 W. Scott Black Dwarf viii, in Tales of my Landlord 1st Ser. I. 156 Speak him fair, Hobbie; the like o' him will no bear thrawing. 1897 Daily Record (Glasgow) 17 Sept. 4 The present unsatisfactory condition of affairs is..due in great part to personal feeling and ‘thrawing’. 1958 T. G. Snoddy Green Loanings 18 Hae ye had thrawins in your dreams? †b. Scottish. The action of twisting or distorting the meaning of something. Obsolete. ΚΠ 1563 D. Fergusson Answer Epist. R. Benedict iv. f. 39^v I trust the Readers shal easylie perceaue bothe your ignorance..and otherwayes your malice in throwing of this Text. 1581 J. Hamilton Catholik Traictise v. f. 67 Thay teich na vther thing, bot yair auin phantasticall inuentions, and..ar not eschamit to call that..be thrawing and fals applying of the vord of god, the bricht licht of the euangell. 1640 R. Baillie Postscript Lysimachus Nicanor 11 in Ladensium Αὐτοκατάκρισις Your second parallel is whollie Jesuitick, the throwing of holie Scriptures unto your wicked Scoffes at the gracious Servants of God. c. The twisting of silk filaments into raw silk, or the twisting together of two or more single threads or yarns of silk to make silk thread or yarn. Cf. throwsting n. Now historical.Recorded earliest in silk throwing n. ΘΚΠ the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > textile manufacture > manufacture of thread or yarn > [noun] > manufacture of silk thread or yarn silk throwing1621 throwing1621 throwsting?1757 silk throwsting1785 organzining1789 1621 in J. Strype Stow's Surv. of London (rev. ed.) II. v. xiv. 234/1 Sundry Strangers that use the Trade of Silk-throwing. 1662 Act 14 Charles II c. 15 §9 in Statutes of Realm (1963) V. 409 The said Corporation of Silk throwers shall not..make any Orders Ordinances or By-Lawes to sett any Rates or Prices whatsoever upon the Throwing of Silk. 1728 E. Chambers Cycl. at Silk Throwed or Twisted Silks are such, as, beside their Spinning and Winding, have had their Milling or Throwing. 1791 J. Toulmin Hist. Taunton iii. 108 Machinery, on a small scale, for throwing of silk. 1844 G. Dodd Textile Manuf. Great Brit. vi. 192 The next process, called throwing, by which the two, three, five or a dozen threads are twisted firmly one round another. 1868 Rep. U.S. Commissioner Agric. 288 The twisting or ‘throwing’ process is done by passing the thread of raw silk from an upright bottom through the eye of a craned wire flyer, which rapidly spins with the top of the bobbin revolving above. 1912 Silk July 27/1 The waste made in throwing varies with the character of the silk in each lot. 1962 Econ. Hist Rev. 15 13 Water power had been used in..the throwing of silk for centuries. 2007 J. Field et al. Amer. Silk, 1830–1930 xiii. 103 In due course, the silk passed through more than a dozen steps, including washing, winding, cleaning, throwing (sometimes called spinning),..and reeling. 2. †a. The action or an act of turning wood, or a wooden item, on a lathe. Obsolete. ΚΠ Promptorium Parvulorum (Harl. 221) 493 Throwynge, or turnynge of vesselle, tornacio. 1483 Catholicon Anglicum (BL Add. 89074) (1881) 385 A Thrawynge, to[r]natura. b. The action of moulding clay into shape using a potter's wheel, for the purpose of making a ceramic item.Recorded earliest in throwing clay n. at Compounds 3. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > industry > manufacturing processes > pottery-making or ceramics > [noun] > specific processes fictilage1610 throwing1686 fritting1816 biscuiting1819 slapping1825 blunging1832 jigging1865 baking1868 bossinga1877 kaolinization1886 towing1892 jolleying1901 saggaring1901 mould-running1910 mullitization1939 double-dipping1940 Belgicization1942 prefiring1944 press-moulding1953 1686 R. Plot Nat. Hist. Staffs. iii. 122 All which they call throwing clays, because they..will work on the wheel. 1797 Encycl. Brit. XVII. 811/1 (Stoneware) The mixture..is beat..and then is in order for throwing. 1832 G. R. Porter Treat. Manuf. Porcelain & Glass 45 The operation of throwing consists in shaping such vessels as have a circular form, and is performed upon a machine called a potter's lathe. a1882 H. Cole Fifty Years Public Work (1884) I. 105 Superintending the throwing, turning, modelling, and moulding of a tea service. 1952 M. Fieldhouse Pottery x. 60 Wide-bellied pots have a tendency to ‘squat’ just after throwing. 1971 P. Rawson Ceramics (1984) 46 Separate foot rims were thrown and luted on to the rounded bases of pots completely pinched off at the end of throwing. 2012 Grand Forks (N. Dakota) Herald (Nexis) 4 Apr. Several potters will demonstrate throwing and hand-building in the Muddy Waters work rooms. II. Senses relating to throw v.¹ III. 3. The action or an act of throwing something or someone (in various senses of throw v.¹ III.).bomb-throwing, discus-throwing, knife-throwing, mud-throwing, stone-throwing, etc.: see the first element. ΘΚΠ the world > movement > impelling or driving > projecting through space or throwing > [noun] warpinga1150 throwinga1325 casting1557 whirling1579 jaculation1608 tossing1711 a1325 (c1280) Southern Passion (Pepys 2344) (1927) l. 1085 (MED) Fram ham he wente þo þe þrowynge of a stone. a1425 (?a1300) Kyng Alisaunder (Linc. Inn) (1952) l. 1607 Þe fotmen and þo on hors Trauaillid..Wiþ þrowyng [c1400 Laud þraweynge] and wiþ nymyng. Promptorium Parvulorum (Harl. 221) 493 Throwynge, or castynge, jactura, jactus. 1487 (a1380) J. Barbour Bruce (St. John's Cambr.) xiii. 156 Thar wes..sic thrawing [1489 Adv. sic thrang] and sic thristing,..That it wes hydwiss for till her. ?1556 N. Smyth tr. Herodian Hist. i. f. xiii. By casting his dartes from aboue, as oute of a safe place, he shoulde rather shew his cunning of throwing then any valiauntnesse. 1591 P. S. tr. C. Paradin Heroicall Deuises 285 A certaine Indian..was of such dexteritie in throwing of a dart, that he could cast it a great way off thorugh [sic] a ring of small compasse. a1649 W. Drummond Wks. (1711) 214 By throwing of Oat-Meal in the People's Eyes. 1699 B. E. New Dict. Canting Crew Green gown, a throwing of young Lasses on the Grass and Kissing them. 1715 ‘E. Standfast’ Let. Advice T. Brett 75 Fightings, Breakings of Windows, Throwings of Dirt, both immoral and real, and Threatnings of further Mischief. 1791 Barrington's Impartial Narr. Present State Botany Bay 22 None of them should be fired at..unless they provoked it, by throwing of spears. 1833 J. Nyren Young Cricketer's Tutor 90 Walker..began the system of throwing instead of bowling, now so much the fashion. At that time, it was esteemed foul play. 1897 Daily News 1 Nov. 5/2 The throwing nuisance, which has for years been the scandal of English cricket. 1935 Jrnl. Health & Physical Educ. Mar. 54/1 Two of the tests measure the fundamental skill of throwing and catching. 1992 K. C. A. Smith & R. E. Alley Electr. Circuits (1996) 286 The constant A depends upon the conditions obtaining at the instant the change occurs (e.g. the throwing of a switch) that initiates the transient behaviour. 2017 Chicago Daily Herald (Nexis) 16 Mar. (Sports section) 1 The Cubs will gladly take Heyward's strong defense, accurate throwing, smart baserunning and overall team leadership ability. Phrases throwing at cocks: a custom or traditional game in which sticks are thrown at a cockerel tied to a post, formerly traditionally associated with Shrovetide; = cock-throwing n. Now historical. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > fighting or baiting animals > cock-throwing > [noun] cock-thrashing1409 throwing at cocks1612 cock-throwing1650 cockshy1815 cockshying1830 1612 T. Taylor Αρχὴν Ἁπάντων: Comm. Epist. Paul to Titus i. xv. 304 (margin) Throwing at cocks an inhumane sport. 1669 E. Chamberlayne Angliæ Notitia 46 The Citizens and Peasants have..Throwing at Cocks, Shuttle-cock, Bowling,..and Ringing of Bells. 1709 J. Edwards Preacher: Third Pt. 171 Not only Cock-fighting but Throwing at Cocks is an Unlawful Sport. c1770 (title) A friendly admonition against throwing at Cocks and of Cockfighting. 1812 Belfast Monthly Mag. Dec. 454/1 That..more cruel custom of throwing at cocks on Shrove-Tuesday, has been laid aside, in most places. 1865 Notts. Guardian 3 Mar. 10/4 In days not very long gone by, the inhuman sport of throwing at cocks was practised at Shrovetide. 1969 V. Bartlett Past of Pastimes viii. 100 ‘Cocking’ or ‘cock-fighting’, has, of course, lasted much longer than ‘throwing at cocks.’ 2012 P. D. Smith City vii. 273 ‘Throwing at Cocks’, or throwing objects at tethered birds, was popular in Chaucer's day. Compounds C1. With following adverbs, forming nouns of action corresponding to adverbial combinations of the verb (see throw v.¹ Phrasal verbs). throwing about n. ΚΠ a1616 W. Shakespeare Hamlet (1623) ii. ii. 263/1 Oh there ha's beene much throwing about of Braines. 1655 H. More Antidote against Atheism (ed. 2) App. iii. ix. 218 The watch-men of the Town..heard..the fallings and throwings of things about. 1870 Baltimore Med. Jrnl. 1 22 Miss C——, whilst eating fruit with friends, was amused by the throwing about of the seed of the watermelon. 1922 World's Work Feb. 427/1 All the throwing about of cream tarts and the like in the early films. 2003 National Assembly Official Rep. (Republic of Kenya) 9 Oct. 2934 You will recall what transpired here yesterday, including the throwing about of names on points of order. throwing aside n. ΚΠ 1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 281/1 Throwyng asyde.., debaux. 1665 M. Nedham Medela Medicinæ 468 A throwing aside of the old Principles and Methods. 1838 Extra Globe (Washington, D.C.) 17 May 116/1 The indispensable business of the body compelled the throwing aside of the whole subject. 1918 New Republic 21 Sept. 214/2 A throwing aside of everything for which we fight. 1986 Daily Mail 16 Dec. 18/1 To make us all feel responsible for the wanton throwing aside of nature's laws. throwing away n. ΚΠ 1569 T. Copley tr. St. Augustine Of Faith & Wks. viii, in R. Pole Treatie Iustification ii. f. 13 Doe ye penance? For therein is expressed a throwing away of the olde life, that they which be baptised, may put on a newe. 1665 P. Williams Φιλανθρωπια viii. §3. 127 It may seem, in the eyes of vain and foolish men, a throwing away of their life. a1817 J. Austen Persuasion (1818) III. iv. 59 To..involve herself at nineteen in an engagement..would be, indeed, a throwing away, which she grieved to think of! 1848 J. J. S. Wharton Law Lexicon 335/2 Jactus mercium (a throwing away of goods), jetsam. 1934 A. Nin Let. 27 Dec. in A. Nin & H. Miller Literate Passion (1989) 275 That throwing away of whatever you have wanted for a long time. 1991 P. Barker Regeneration i. 8 The throwing away of the medal still struck him as odd. throwing back n. ΚΠ 1623 J. Weemes Christian Synagogue iii. iii. 283 Contrary to this is retortion; the throwing backe the sinne vpon the sinner himselfe. 1713 Spectator No. 485. 66 A judicious throwing back of his Perriwig. 1799 J. Adams Anal. Horsemanship 92 He readily Stops at the easy throwing back of the body. 1877 Appletons' Jrnl. Aug. 125/1 The gentlemen..executed a more or less elaborate double-shuffle, interspersed with occasional throwings-back of the shoulders. 1937 Rotarian Feb. 38/2 A yodelling, a shining of eyes, a throwing back of hair. 2014 A. M. Butler Eternal Sunshine of Spotless Mind v. 72 His laborious throwing back of the bedclothes. throwing down n. ΚΠ a1387 J. Trevisa tr. R. Higden Polychron. (St. John's Cambr.) (1869) II. 359 Of þe whiche dedes... Þe nynþe þe þrowynge doun of Anteus, þe geant of Libya, þat took aȝen myȝte and strengþe as ofte as he touched þe erþe. Promptorium Parvulorum (Harl. 221) 493 Throwynge downe, fro hey place, precipicium. 1518 in I. S. Leadam Select Cases Star Chamber (1911) II. 131 Yf they had known the throwyng downe of the seyd iij gappes. 1652 J. Gadbury Philastrogus Knavery Epitomized 12 The throwing down of Art, and the dishonour of God that gives the Art. 1722 J. Stevens Hist. Antient Abbeys I. 207/1 The dissolving of the Monastery, and throwing down of the Church. 1851 Jrnl. Royal Agric. Soc. 12 i. 88 These straining efforts are sometimes so energetic as to cause ‘throwing down’ of the uterus. 1915 Central Law Jrnl. 80 382/1 The throwing down of the match was the cause of the accident. 2015 Daily Mail (Nexis) 24 July The throwing down of gauntlets. throwing in n. ΚΠ ?c1425 tr. Guy de Chauliac Grande Chirurgie (Paris) (1971) 524 (MED) Maistre Jordan made iniecciouns, i. þrowynges yn, & siryngaciouns within þe bledder with bawme. 1605 R. Dallington Suruey Great Dukes State Tuscany 37 They know when it is sufficiently boiled by the throwing in of an Egge, for if it sinck, then is it not yet perfect. 1779 Philos. Trans. 1778 (Royal Soc.) 68 196 In Henry the fourth's time the throwing in of dung and other nastiness into the foss was forbid under the severe fine of one hundred pounds. 1810 T. Coke Hist. W. Indies II. xxiii. 229 General Meyers..omitted the throwing-in of provisions. 1886 Proc. Engineers' Club Philadelphia 5 158 The lid is taken off, and the throwing in of the coal commenced. 1948 Billboard 3 Jan. 66/3 To say that roller skating has to depend exclusively on juvenile patronage is an attitude of defeat, a throwing in of the sponge. 2004 P. Edwards Statesman's Sci. i. 32 Coleridge's dualist view of dynamic relations was not a throwing in of the towel. throwing off n. ΚΠ 1646 N. Lockyer Eng. faithfully watcht With 268 A throwing off, of that which hath had its demonstration and commendation for vertue. 1785 M. Garthshore in Med. Communications 2 39 It terminated by the throwing off of sloughs. 1837 Monthly Rev. Nov. 344 The waste of the body, the throwings off, as we would express it. 1948 B. Griffith Amer. Me i. ii. 58 The casual ‘throwing-off’ of words and vowels is typical of Pachucos. 2004 Times (Nexis) 21 Feb. 39 It is more a change of thinking and tactics that is required, a greater self-belief and a throwing-off of the conservative shackles. throwing out n. ΚΠ a1382 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Bodl. 959) (1969) Lament. ii. 14 Þi prophetis seeȝen to þee false & foole thingis..þei seeȝen..to þee false takingis to & þrowingis out [L. eiectiones]. ?c1425 tr. Guy de Chauliac Grande Chirurgie (Paris) (1971) 368 (MED) Þe secounde entencioun..was þrowynge oute of þe gendred matere. ?1560 T. Norton Orations of Arsanes sig. S.j The throwing out of a rope, or reaching of a poale may saue him. 1660 C. Burges Reasons shewing Necessity of Reformation sig. A2 Nor will it be unseasonable to reflect upon the throwing out of many worthy Ministers in Q. Elizabeths reign. 1772 F. Wollaston in Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 63 68 I have set down the throwing-out of the pendulum,..on a scale behind it. 1838 Chambers's Edinb. Jrnl. 24 Nov. 347/2 The resting of the rope on the ground, acts, in short, like the throwing out of ballast. 1938 Motor Boating Dec. 10/2 The tanker was at fault because its excessive speed and improper handling necessitated the throwing out of the anchor. 2012 Daily Tel. (Nexis) 11 Apr. 12 If there was anything too extreme going on, it would have been a throwing out, not a scolding. throwing over n. ΚΠ 1571 Dict. French & Eng. sig. Q.iv Iectement par dessus, a throwing ouer. 1737 H. Bracken Farriery Improved xiv. 212 It is very possible for a Horse to get such a Bruise or Crush upon his Eye, in casting or throwing over. 1851 J. Pycroft Cricket Field x. 196 Throwing over does sometimes answer; but a cunning runner will get in your way. 1901 J. B. Ames Sel. Cases Law of Admiralty v. 324 The passengers and crew from the Gratitude could not have been taken on board the bark at all without a throwing over of the cargo. 2015 Spectator (Nexis) 23 May This throwing over was the great trauma of Pym's life. throwing up n. ΚΠ 1572 J. Bridges tr. R. Gwalther Hundred, Threescore & Fiftene Homelyes vppon Actes Apostles xxii. cxlvi. 796 They handle their matter..with clamours, with casting away their clothes, with throwing vp of duste [L. pulveris iactatione], and other lyke furious gestures. 1679 Observ. Last Dutch Wars 12 The throwing up of Ashes towards Heaven. 1754 W. Horsburgh Exper. & Observ. upon Hartfell Spaw 51 These symptoms, viz. the constant throwing up of all he took, headach, cough, watchfulness, along with pains in his breast. 1853 Jrnl. Soc. Arts 12 Aug. 472/1 Invention of a new or improved apparatus to prevent the throwing up of mud by the wheels of vehicles. 1894 Forum (U.S.) Aug. 732 There is no throwing up of the hands in despair. 1992 R. A. Young Bear Black Eagle Child 9 Try not to think of throwing up, no matter how terrible the taste. 2012 C. P. Curtis Mighty Miss Malone ix. 80 An explosion of cheers and a huge throwing-up of hands. C2. attributive. Designating a weapon or tool designed for throwing through the air, as throwing axe, throwing club, throwing knife, throwing net, throwing spear, etc.Some of the more established compounds of this type are treated at Compounds 3. See also throwing-stick n. ΚΠ 1598 W. Phillip tr. J. H. van Linschoten Disc. Voy. E. & W. Indies ii. 200/1 Besides these kniues, they vse throwing kniues [Du. werp Messen], with three or foure poyntes, being verie dangerous. 1770 J. Cook Jrnl. 23 Aug. (1955) I. 396 By the help of these throwing sticks..they will hit a Mark at the distance of 40 or 50 Yards. 1845 C. H. Smith in Kitto's Cycl. Biblical Lit. I. at Arms Among these [instruments at first employed in the chase] were the club and the throwing-bat. 1880 J. G. Wood Uncivilized Races Men (new ed.) I. lxxii. 729/1 At fig. 6..is seen a very formidable variety of the throwing-spear. 1895 Cornhill Mag. Dec. 634 The soldiers..had brought him down with throwing-clubs. 1898 A. J. Butler tr. F. Ratzel Hist. Mankind III. 72 Throwing-knives are among the notable properties of the races of the Monbuttu type north of the Congo. 1902 L. Loat in G. A. Boulenger Zool. Egypt, Fishes Nile (1907) Introd. 21 At Cairo..the commonest net of all is a circular throwing-net,..with an average circumference of about 50 feet and a half-inch mesh. 1903 R. Kipling in Windsor Mag. Sept. 370/1 Tegumai..was holding his stone throwing-hatchet in one hand. 1919 Munsey's Mag. Oct. 588/1 In the depths of the chest behind the racks were a number of broad-headed throwing-axes. 1950 H. L. Lorimer Homer & Monuments viii. 452 In Homeric warfare the pair of throwing-spears is normal. 2014 Stirling Times (Perth) (Nexis) 1 July 14 He was subsequently stopped and searched and found to be in possession of a throwing knife. C3. throwing arm n. the arm that a person uses, or ordinarily uses, to throw with; hence often used to refer to a person's ability or skill in throwing. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > ball game > [noun] > player > throwing arm throwing arm1887 1887 Cleveland (Ohio) Plain Dealer 7 Apr. 6/2 At that time his throwing arm was of little use. 1887 Daily Picayune (New Orleans) 14 Nov. 3/1 Shea was effective,..and McVey gave him reliable support and had his throwing arm with him. 1972 J. Mosedale Football ii. 19 Thanks to his accurate throwing arm, New Orleans was..one of the darkest cities in America. 1977 World of Cricket Monthly June 47/2 He had one of the strongest throwing arms [printed arm] ever seen in Australian cricket. 2001 Times 2 Apr. (Sport section) s14/4 He is still an amazingly nimble and keen-eyed fielder at short-stop and possesses an unerringly accurate throwing arm. throwing balls n. a weapon used as a missile consisting of two or more balls or stones connected by strong cord; = bolas n. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > hunting > equipment > trap or snare > [noun] > other devices wile1677 bolas1843 throwing balls1882 killer1892 society > armed hostility > military equipment > weapon > missile > [noun] > bolas bolas1843 throwing balls1882 1882 C. T. Gatty Catal. Mayer Mus. Pt. II: Prehist. Antiq. & Ethnogr. 17/2 Bolas, or throwing balls, of walrus-ivory, attached to strings of animal fibre with feathers at the end, for throwing and entangling birds. 1910 Harper's Mag. June 60/2 Through the long Patagonian winter the shepherds and gauchoes busy themselves making..bolas (throwing-balls). 2001 D. Bonnette Origin Human Species xiv. 135 In 1956, G. H. R. von Koenigswald reported finding extremely primitive throwing balls, or bolas, in Olduvai Gorge's Bed I. throwing board n. a short wooden implement used to propel a dart or spear; = throwing-stick n. 1. ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > military equipment > weapon > sharp weapon > spear or lance > [noun] > specific for throwing > hurled with throwing-stick > spear-throwing stick throwing-stick1770 woomera1817 spear-thrower1827 throwing board1832 woomerang1849 throw-stick1869 atlatl1871 1832 Bell's Life in London 9 Sept. T— sends you a kangaroo skin, two spears, and one throwing board; the latter article the natives never part with but with life. 1932 Amer. Jrnl. Archaeol. 36 488 Except for the throwing-board, which he believes to be a local Eskimo invention..he does not discuss those objects capable of being preserved. 1990 S. Harrison Mother Earth Father Sky ii. xxxi. 212 I have carved outlines of seals on my throwing board. throwing clay n. any clay body suitable for throwing using a potter's wheel, being highly plastic and strong. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > materials > raw material > clay > [noun] > for making pottery eartha1350 potter's clay?a1425 potter's earth1440 pot earth?a1450 argil1530 pot clay1674 throwing clay1686 figuline1859 pottery clay1869 1686 R. Plot Nat. Hist. Staffs. iii. 122 All which they call throwing clays, because they are of a closer texture, & will work on the wheel. 1963 E. Röttger Creative Clay Design 93 Natural clays and prepared throwing clays. 1972 K. Lynch What Time is this Place? i. 12 The village potteries of North Staffordshire had the geological advantage of a great variety of throwing clays located on a rich coalfield. 2014 Tablelands Advertiser (Austral.) (Nexis) 15 Aug. 16 I use a fine throwing clay.., I don't like thick and heavy work like the old days. throwing engine n. now historical a machine that provides a rotary motion for twisting silk or for throwing pottery. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > equipment > pottery manufacturing equipment > [noun] > potter's lathe potter's lathe1728 throwing wheel1746 throwing engine1747 lathe1773 jigger1825 jolley?1881 kick-wheel1893 1747 R. Campbell London Tradesman App. 322 Of Loom-Makers. This is a Tradesman composed of the Smith, Joiner and Carpenter; he is employed in making Weaving Looms, Throwing Engines for Silk Throwsters, and several Engines for Mechanic Uses. 1825 ‘J. Nicholson’ Operative Mechanic 462 A strap is attached from the driven cone to the spindle of the throwing-engine. 1982 B. S. Trinder Making Industr. Landscape iii. 83 In 1772, after a visit to Cornwall, John Turner of Lane End used a Newcomen engine to pump water back over a wheel, which he employed to power throwing engines and lathes. throwing house n. now chiefly historical an outbuilding in a pottery factory set aside for the process of throwing pottery. ΚΠ 1747 Indenture in Trans. Eng. Ceramic Circle (1972) 8 176 All those Pot ovens houses Buildings Ware houses Work houses Throwing houses With the Appurtenances in the holding of Thomas Whieldon. 1814 Staffs. Advertiser 6 Aug. 2/4 To be sold by auction... All that capital set of China Works, situate at Lane Delph..consisting of one Slip House, two Throwing Houses, large enough to contain four Lathes, [etc.]. 1971 L. Weatherill Pottery Trade ii. 19 Aaron Shaw..had tubs, a cistern, clay, and slip in his throwing house. 2006 P. Wilkinson & P. Ashley Eng. Buildings Bk. 237/2 There were thousands of bottle kilns and throwing houses in the towns known collectively as ‘The Potteries’. throwing iron n. a throwing weapon having a projecting metal blade or point, formerly used in various cultures in central Africa; (now also) = throwing star n. [Originally (with reference to Africa) after German Wurfeisen (1879 in this sense in the work reviewed in quot. 1880; 15th cent. in more general use).] ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > military equipment > weapon > missile > [noun] > knife-like missile throwing iron1880 1880 Nature 1 Jan. 199/1 Each of the performers..seizes his spear and throwing-iron (a curious boomerang-like weapon with a long protecting prong on the concave margin). 1898 A. J. Butler tr. F. Ratzel Hist. Mankind III. 71 The indispensable weapon was the throwing-iron, of which many carried several specimens,..in sheaths of hide. 1987 Jrnl. Afr. Hist. 28 286 Spears and throwing irons were kept for close quarters. 2009 Chronicle (Toowoomba, Queensland) (Nexis) 17 July 3 Chinese throwing irons and other martial arts-style weapons had been seized by police. throwing machine n. now historical a machine for twisting raw silk into thread. ΚΠ 1776 Daily Advertiser 2 Jan. To be Sold by Auction.., The Houshold Furniture and working Utensils of a Manufacturer; consisting of a curious Throwing Machine, two Clouding Tables.., &c. 1843 Penny Mag. Suppl. Apr. 166/2 The ‘throwing-machine’..is almost exactly the same in principle as the ‘spinning-machine’. 2007 C. Gleason Biogr. Silk 22/1 Throwing machines were used to twist several silk filaments into one stronger thread that could be used for weaving. throwing mill n. †(a) = throwing machine n. (obsolete); (b) a mill or factory for the manufacture of thrown silk (now historical). ΘΚΠ the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > textile manufacture > manufacture of thread or yarn > [noun] > manufacture of silk thread or yarn > machine for throwing mill1719 1719 Weekly-Jrnl. 22 Aug. Turners of the Throwing Mill. 1724 D. Defoe Tour Great Brit. I. ii. 83 Here is a fine Engine..which was done by Mr. Serocoal, the same who fell into the River at the Throwing-Mill at Derby. 1831 G. R. Porter Treat. Silk Manuf. 201 Spinning or twisting the thread..wound upon the bobbins, is performed with the throwing mill. 1851 L. D. B. Gordon in Art Jrnl. Illustr. Catal. p. ii. */2 The factories in which raw silk is spun into silk-thread for weaving are called throwing mills. 2007 Derby Evening Tel.* (Nexis) 16 Aug. 27 He added a seven-storey throwing mill and a lower weaving mill. throwing power n. (a) the power used or exerted in throwing something; the force with which something is thrown; (b) the ability of an electrodepositing solution to produce an even coating on an irregularly shaped object; cf. throw v.¹ 31. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > chemistry > ions, ionization, or electrolysis > [noun] > electrolysis > miscellaneous other related concepts throwing power1854 mobility1895 oxidation potential1900 single-electrode1913 Wien effect1929 the world > matter > physics > electromagnetic radiation > electricity > electrolysis > [noun] > production of even coating throwing power1854 1854 Art Jrnl. Feb. 36/3 In the..factories where steam power is used, all the throwing power proceeds from double cones with straps working at the larger ends. 1868 Trans. Ethnol. Soc. London 6 255 The inland man..probably first invented the sling as an assister of the throwing power of the arm. 1915 Trans. Amer. Electrochem. Soc. 27 97 The ‘throwing’ power of solution I B is remarkably satisfactory. 1966 D. G. Brandon Mod. Techniques Metallogr. 5 Electropolishing..may even give a poor macropolish as a result of..poor throwing power in the electrolyte. 1970 Guardian 22 Aug. 13/10 Such is the throwing power of the European women. 2004 Water Environment Res. 76 1660 The throwing power tended to be somewhat inferior when soluble copper anodes were employed. throwing room n. a room set aside for the process of throwing pottery. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > workplace > place where specific things are made > [noun] > pottery > room or building in treading-room1752 throwing room1764 placing house1875 1764 V. Green Surv. Worcester 232 You are first conducted into the counting-house.., and from thence into the throwing-room, where the ware is first formed from the clay. 1843 G. Dodd in Penny Mag. Feb. 74/1 We visit the ‘throwing-room,’ where the remarkable process of forming circular vessels is conducted. 1913 Motor World 2 Oct. 56 The cylindrical blanks of clay that come from the throwing room are graded down to uniform dimensions before being passed on to the turning department. 1991 St. Louis (Missouri) Post-Dispatch (Nexis) 28 Oct. 1 d (caption) Warren MacKenzie in the throwing room at his workshop in Stillwater, Minn. 2003 Jrnl. Archaeol. Method & Theory 10 233 Their families did not own enough land by their homes for even a separate throwing room. † throwing spindle n. Obsolete rare a curling iron.Only in Old English. ΚΠ OE Aldhelm Glosses (Brussels 1650) in L. Goossens Old Eng. Glosses of MS Brussels, Royal Libr. 1650 (1974) 229 Calamistro : þrawincspinle, aco ferreo cum, hærnædla. OE Aldhelm Glosses (Brussels 1650) in L. Goossens Old Eng. Glosses of MS Brussels, Royal Libr. 1650 (1974) 479 [Antiae..cincinni] calamistro crispantur : mid þrawincspilnle [OE Digby 146 mid þrawingspinle] synt aþrawene. throwing star n. a weapon in the form of a small star having a number of projecting blades or points, designed to be thrown with a spinning motion.Throwing stars are particularly associated with Japanese martial arts, esp. ninjutsu. Cf. shuriken n. ΚΠ 1974 J. Nazel Slick Revenge xi. 135 He scooped up four throwing stars, careful not to cut himself on the pointed protrusions, and slipped them into his jacket pocket. 1976 Criminal Justice Jrnl. 1 51 As used in this section a ‘Chinese throwing star’ means any instrument, without handles, consisting of a metal plate having three or more radiating points with one or more sharp edges and designed in the shape of a polygon, trefoil, cross, star, diamond, or other geometric shape for use as a weapon for throwing. 1985 N.Y. Times 4 Oct. a30/1 Shurikens—palm-sized throwing stars with razor points—spin through the air like little buzz saws. 2012 Black Belt May 53 (advt.) Professional throwing stars..super sharp set of 4 with a nylon carry case. † throwing table n. Obsolete = potter's wheel n. at potter n.¹ Compounds 2a. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > equipment > pottery manufacturing equipment > [noun] > potter's lathe > horizontal wheel of wheela1382 potter's wheel1609 whirling-table1764 throwing table1855 slow wheel1925 1855 Trans. Hist. Soc. Lancs. & Cheshire 7 207 Here has been introduced one of the throwing tables for making hollow ware. 1875 E. H. Knight Amer. Mech. Dict. III. 2564/1 Throwing-table, a revolving, horizontal table on which earthen vessels are shaped by the potter. 1924 Times 13 June 7/1 Electrically operated lathes and ‘throwing’ tables. throwing wheel n. = potter's wheel n. at potter n.¹ Compounds 2a; (also sometimes, as in quot. 1825) a driving wheel for this. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > equipment > pottery manufacturing equipment > [noun] > potter's lathe potter's lathe1728 throwing wheel1746 throwing engine1747 lathe1773 jigger1825 jolley?1881 kick-wheel1893 1746 Westm. Jrnl. 22 Mar. Sundry Warehouses, Work-shops, Lath's, Throwing-Wheels, and other Utensils useful in making fine Earthen-Ware or China. 1825 ‘J. Nicholson’ Operative Mechanic 461 The throwing-wheel, or, with greater propriety, the throwing-engine, consists of a large vertical wheel; having a winch or handle affixed to it, and a groove on the rim for the introduction of a cord [etc.]. 2014 M. Hatch Maker Movement Manifesto i. 14 His dad was a ceramic artist and had throwing wheels, clay, and amazing glazes around his house. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2018; most recently modified version published online June 2022). † throwingadj.n.³ Forms: see throw v.¹ and -ing suffix¹ Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: throw v.¹, -ing suffix¹. Etymology: < throw v.¹ + -ing suffix¹. Compare overthrowing adj.On the stem vowel in Older Scots throwand see discussion at throw v.¹ The use of the word in quot. a1547 is after quot. 1513², which translates the same source. It is not entirely clear how Surrey understood Douglas's use of the word, as use of throw v.¹ 2a is chiefly Scots in this period. He may perhaps have associated the word with throe n. instead (compare the spelling in the 1815 edition of the passage); however, throe v. 1 (and throeing n.) are only attested later. Obsolete (chiefly Scottish in later use). Originally: that turns or revolves. In later use: that wrenches or twists; writhing, painfully struggling; (of the sea) heaving, tossing.In quot. eOE with reference to a turning spindle in the putative source ( Aldhelm Carmen de virginitate 1458).In quot. 1513¹ as n.: (with the) writhing or painfully struggling person. ΚΠ eOE Cleopatra Gloss. in J. J. Quinn Minor Lat.-Old Eng. Glossaries in MS Cotton Cleopatra A.III (Ph.D. diss., Stanford Univ.) (1956) 199 Rotante, þrawende. a1450 (c1410) H. Lovelich Hist. Holy Grail xxii. l. 45 (MED) Sche seillede In that sted Fer Amyddis the grete throwenge se..The grettest tempest him thowte was there. a1500 (c1425) Andrew of Wyntoun Oryg. Cron. Scotl. (Nero) v. l. 3355 Þar thrawande thrystis sare hym thristyt Qwhil his bowalis wiþe in hym bristyt. 1513 G. Douglas tr. Virgil Æneid iv. xii. 60 Hir sistir An..Fast ruschis throw..the rout, And on the throwand [L. morientem], with mony spreich and schoute, Callis by name. 1513 G. Douglas tr. Virgil Æneid iv. xii. 102 Almychty Iuno..Hir maid Iris from the hevin hes send The throwand saull [L. luctantem animam] to lous. a1547 Earl of Surrey tr. Virgil Certain Bks. Aenæis (1557) iv. sig. G.ii^v From heauen she sent the Goddesse Iris downe, The throwing sprit [1554 thrallying, 1815 throe-ing] and iointed limmes to loose. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2018; most recently modified version published online June 2020). < n.¹eOEn.²OEadj.n.³eOE
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