throw

throw a shoe; throw a javelin; the horse threw its rider

When this conversation was repeated in detail within the hearing of the young woman in question, and undoubtedly for his benefit, Mr. Trevor threw shame to the winds and scandalized the Misses Brewster then and there by proclaiming his father to have been a country storekeeper.

1897 December (indicated as 1898), Winston Churchill, chapter V, in The Celebrity: An Episode, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., Ltd., →OCLC:

(transitive) To hurl; to release (an object) with some force from one’s hands, an apparatus, etc. so that it moves rapidly through the air.

There the snake throws her enamelled skin.

c. 1595–1596 (date written), William Shakespeare, “A Midsommer Nights Dreame”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene i]:

(transitive) To eject or cause to fall off.

throw the switch

This time was most dreadful for Lilian. Thrown on her own resources and almost penniless, she maintained herself and paid the rent of a wretched room near the hospital by working as a charwoman, sempstress, anything. In a moment she had dropped to the level of a casual labourer.

1918, W[illiam] B[abington] Maxwell, chapter XVII, in The Mirror and the Lamp, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC:

(transitive) To move to another position or condition; to displace.

To move to another position or condition; to displace.

Through practice, you’ll learn how to add the right amount of water as you throw a pot, and your fingers will feel when the pot has reached the proper thickness.

2009 January 19, Linda Franz, Basic Pottery Making: All the Skills and Tools You Need to Get Started, Stackpole Books, →ISBN:

(transitive, ceramics) To make (a pot) by shaping clay as it turns on a wheel.

To make (a pot) by shaping clay as it turns on a wheel.

(transitive, cricket, of a bowler) To deliver (the ball) illegally by straightening the bowling arm during delivery.

If the file is read-only, the method throws an invalid-operation exception.

(transitive, computing) To send (an error) to an exception-handling mechanism in order to interrupt normal processing.

The tennis player was accused of taking bribes to throw the match.

Four pairs of women's doubles badminton players, including the Chinese top seeds, have been ejected from the Olympic tournament for trying to throw matches in an effort to secure a more favourable quarter-final draw.

2012 August 1, Peter Walker, Haroon Siddique, Eight Olympic badminton players disqualified for 'throwing games', Guardian Unlimited:

(sports, video games) To intentionally lose a game.

The pitcher threw a perfect game.

(sports, transitive) (of a game where one’s role is throwing something) To perform in a specified way in (a match).

The deliberate red herring threw me at first.

“Jann, why does he hate me so much?” That question threw me. I was expecting a lunatic yelling profanities.

1999, Jan Blackstone-Ford, The Custody Solutions Sourcebook, page 196:

(transitive, informal) To confuse or mislead.

Their sergeant threw the troops into pitched battle.

Stoke threw men forward in numbers as they attempted to find a way back into the game, and Mark Schwarzer was forced into a low save from Huth's close-range effort.

2010 December 28, Marc Vesty, “Stoke 0-2 Fulham”, in BBC:

(transitive, figuratively) To send hastily or desperately.

The magistrate ordered the suspect to be thrown into jail.

The plot of Felix was quickly discovered, and De Lacey and Agatha were thrown into prison.

1816 June – 1817 April/May (date written), [Mary Shelley], Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus. […], volume (please specify |volume=I to III), London: […] [Macdonald and Son] for Lackington, Hughes, Harding, Mavor, & Jones, published 1 January 1818, →OCLC:

The standard method of dealing with an addict was to arrest him, throw him into a cell, and leave him until the agonizing pangs of withdrawal were over.

1993, Margaret McKee, Fred Chisenhall, Beale black & blue: life and music on black America’s main street, page 30:

She was known for throwing the craziest parties in college.

And now, Clevelanders hoping to bring the Rock Roll Hall of Fame to their city are throwing a bash to commemorate the 34th birthday of disc Jockey Alan Freed’s “Moondog Coronation Ball”.

1986 March 1, “Bash Planned”, in Evening News:

Should you be interested, for whatever reason, it will tell you how to throw a party for your 40-year-old husband or your 100-year-old great-grandmother. It also describes games that can be played at various kinds of parties[…]

(transitive) To organize an event, especially a party.

To organize an event, especially a party.

The kings came to the agreement between themselves that they would cast lots by the dice to determine who should have this property, and that he who threw the highest should have the district. The Swedish king threw two sixes, and said King Olaf need scarcely throw.

1844, Snorri Sturluson, translated by Samuel Laing, Heimskringla:

(transitive, intransitive) To roll (a die or dice).

(transitive) To cause a certain number on the die or dice to be shown after rolling it.

To cause a certain number on the die or dice to be shown after rolling it.

Declarer threw his queen of spades on the high diamond. He then won the last three tricks with his ace, queen and nine of hearts behind East’s jack third.

1990 January 4, “Sharp coup overcomes trump split”, in The Washington Times:

So they stood up, and wrastled another while in silence. Soon the King made trial once again of the fall whereby he had sought to throw him in the first bout, twisting suddenly his right side against Goldry, and catching with his leg Goldry’s leg, and therewith leaning against him with main force.

1922, E[ric] R[ücker] Eddison, The Worm Ouroboros, London: Jonathan Cape, page 25:

(martial arts) To lift or unbalance one’s opponent and then bring him back down to the ground, especially into a position behind the thrower.

“Then, when I throw my voice, when I speak as someone who’s quite different from me, it starts to feel very authentic.”

2005 April 13, Leon Neyfakh, “BOOKENDS: Will the Real Jonathan Safran Foer Please Stand Up”, in Harvard Crimson:

(transitive) To change (one’s voice) in order to give the illusion that the voice is that of someone else, or coming from a different place.

Bill runs into the kitchen and tells Dad that Erik is throwing a tantrum. He tells Bill to go back and watch his program and to ignore his brother. Fifteen minutes later, Erik is still screaming[…]

1991, Janet L. Davies, Ellen Hastings Janosik, Mental health and psychiatric nursing: a caring approach:

In 1975, pregnant with the second of her three children, she threw a hissy fit to get on a trip to Boston for elected officials.

1996 August 19, “Entertaining Mrs Stone”, in New York Magazine, volume 29, number 32:

(transitive) To show sudden emotion, especially anger.

To show sudden emotion, especially anger.

Warwick left the undertaker's shop and retraced his steps until he had passed the lawyer’s office, toward which he threw an affectionate glance.

1900, Charles W. Chesnutt, chapter I, in The House Behind the Cedars:

In other European cities the president visited this week, people waited for his motorcade to pass to throw insults at him, requiring the police to intervene with batons, water cannons and tear gas.

2007 June 11, Claude Salhani, “Analysis: Irony of Bush's European tour”, in UPI:

O’er his fair limbs a flowery vest he threw.

1726, Alexander, transl. Pope, “Book III”, in The Odyssey, translation of original by Homer, line 596; republished in The Complete Poetical Works of Alexander Pope, Boston, New York: Houghton, Mifflin and Company, 1902, page 543:

To put on hastily; to spread carelessly.

A person named Crocket endeavoured to throw silk at Derby in the year 1702 ; but his machinery was imperfect

1829, Stephen Glover, Thomas Noble, The History of the County of Derby:

To twist two or more filaments of (silk, etc.) 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.

I have a minor quibble with Gleason’s decision to throw Lefty Williams in Game Eight with the Series in the balance.

2009, Michael T. Lynch, Jr., It Ain’t So: A Might-Have-Been History of the White Sox in 1919 and Beyond, →ISBN, page 63:

(baseball, slang, of a team, a manager, etc.) To select (a pitcher); to assign a pitcher to a given role (such as starter or reliever).

[…] across the rapid smaragdus-green waters, pouring onward into the country, are thrown three bridges […]

1860, Fredrika Bremer (trans. Mary Howitt), Life in the Old World, v. 1, p. 164

a thrown nail

(obsolete, Scotland, Northern England) To twist or turn.

[…] not only did I not want to throw a punch at him, I wanted to give him a solid silver token of thanks […]

(transitive, of a punch or boxing combination) To deliver.

At the end of the normal gestation period the cow threw two calf mummies as large as cats.

1916, Journal of the American Veterinary Medical Association, volume 49:

They can kid twice a year if things are right, and they often throw twins and triplets.

2008, Monte Dwyer, Red In The Centre: The Australian Bush Through Urban Eyes, Monyer Pty Ltd, page 200:

(transitive, veterinary medicine) Of animals: to give birth to (young).

en-verb

throw (third-person singular simple present throws, present participle throwing, simple past threw or (nonstandard) throwed, past participle thrown or (nonstandard) throwed or (nonstandard) threw)

throws (present singular third-person)
throwing (participle present)
threw (past)
throwed (nonstandard past)
thrown (participle past)
throwed (nonstandard participle past)
threw (nonstandard participle past)
throw (infinitive)

people who live in glass houses shouldn't throw stones

throw enough mud at the wall and some of it will stick

throw enough mud at the wall, some of it will stick

throw nickels around like manhole covers

throw oneself on someone's mercy not have a pot to piss in or a window to throw it out of

throw one's hotdog down someone's hallway

throw things at the wall and see what sticks

trust someone as far as one could throw them

hedh

to cause an object to move rapidly through the air

heitellä

repeatedly, continuously and/or indifferently

dreje

to make by shaping clay as it turns on a wheel

antaa

computing: to send an error to an exception-handling mechanism

pitää

to organize an event, especially a party

heittää

martial arts: to lift the opponent off the ground and bring him back down

muuttaa

of voice: to change in order to give the illusion that the voice is that of someone else

saada kohtaus

to show sudden emotion, especially anger

From Middle English throwen, thrawen, from Old English þrāwan (“to turn, twist”), from Proto-West Germanic *þrāan, from Proto-Germanic *þrēaną (“to twist, turn”), from Proto-Indo-European *terh₁- (“to rub, rub by twisting, twist, turn”).
Cognate with Scots thraw (“to twist, turn, throw”), West Frisian triuwe (“to push”), Dutch draaien (“to turn”), Low German draien, dreien (“to turn (in a lathe)”), German drehen (“to turn”).
Displaced warp as the word for hurling and was displaced by warp as the word for twisting.

inh

Proto-Germanic *þrēaną (“to twist, turn”)

der

Proto-Indo-European *terh₁- (“to rub, rub by twisting, twist, turn”)


throw

With an accurate throw, he lassoed the cow.

What a great throw by the quarterback!

The gambler staked everything on one throw of the dice.

If the expression is a throw, we unwind the stack seeking a handler expression.

2006, Hans-Wolfgang Loidl, Trends in Functional Programming, volume 5, page 62:

(martial arts) A move in which one lifts or unbalances one’s opponent and then brings him down to the ground.

He’s always had a pretty decent throw.

a stone's throw

Only on the north-east may aught save a winged thing come at the castle, across a smooth grass-grown saddle less than a stone’s throw in width.

1922, E[ric] R[ücker] Eddison, The Worm Ouroboros, London: Jonathan Cape, page 104:

The distance travelled by something thrown.

the throw of the piston

The visibility of the screen image is affected by the length of throw of the projector, the type of projector, the intensity of the projector lamp, and the type of the screen.

1947, James Jerome Gibson, Motion Picture Testing and Research, number 7, page 49:

A distance travelled in general; displacement.

A piece of fabric used to cover a bed, sofa or other soft furnishing.

Football tickets are expensive at fifty bucks a throw.

(informal) A single instance, occurrence, venture, or chance.

(historical) A hand-operated lathe, especially a small lathe used by clockmakers.


throw

Downe himselfe he layd
 Vpon the grassie ground, to sleepe a throw;
 The cold earth was his couch, the hard steele his pillow.

1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book III, Canto IV”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:

From Middle English, from Old English þrāh, þrāg (“space of time, period, while”). Of uncertain origin. Perhaps related to Gothic 𐌸𐍂𐌰𐌲𐌾𐌰𐌽 (þragjan, “to run”).


throw

O man haue mind of that laſt bitter throw;
 For as the tree does fall, ſo lyes it euer low.

1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book I, Canto X”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, stanza 41, page 146:

[Valerius] Cordus ſaith, that Iuncus bombicinus ſodden in wine, and ſo taken, helpeth the throwes and gripings of the bellie, that women haue in their childing.

1597, John Gerarde [i.e., John Gerard], “Of Cotton Grasse”, in The Herball or Generall Historie of Plantes. […], London: […] Edm[und] Bollifant, for Bonham and Iohn Norton, →OCLC, book I, page 27:

Commend me to them,
 And tell them, that to eaſe them of their greefes,
 Their feares of Hoſtile ſtrokes, their Aches loſſes,
 Their pangs of Loue, with other incident throwes
 That Natures fragile Veſſell doth ſuſtaine
 In lifes vncertaine voyage, I will ſome kindnes do them, […]

c. 1605–1608, William Shakespeare, “The Life of Tymon of Athens”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act V, scene ii], page 97, column 1:

I had then ſuch Convulſions in my Stomach, for want of ſome Suſtenance, that I cannot deſcribe; with ſuch frequent Throws and Pangs of Appetite, that nothing but the Tortures of Death can imitate; […]

1719, [Daniel Defoe], The Farther Adventures of Robinson Crusoe; […], London: […] W[illiam] Taylor […], →OCLC, page 203:

Seiz'd by the general joy, his heart diſtends
 With gentle throws; […]

a. 1749 (date written), James Thomson, “Autumn”, in The Seasons, London: […] A[ndrew] Millar, and sold by Thomas Cadell, […], published 1768, →OCLC, page 161, lines 1322–1323:

In this Shape, or in that, has Fate entail'd
 The Mother's Throws on all of Woman born,
 Not more the Children, than ſure Heirs of Pain.

1742, [Edward Young], “Night the First. On Life, Death, and Immortality. […]”, in The Complaint: Or, Night-Thoughts on Life, Death, & Immortality, London: […] [Samuel Richardson] for A[ndrew] Millar […], and R[obert] Dodsley […], published 1750, →OCLC, page 14:

[W]e never know the full force of parental affection till our children are about to be taken from us. It is then that we discover how strongly they have entwined themselves round our hearts; when we behold the fixed eye, the pale lips, the convulsive throws of death distorting the countenance; or when with aching and throbbing hearts we deposit those who are a part of ourselves in the cold and silent grave.

1806 October, J. H. K., “Hints on the Manner in which Christian Parents should Improve the Death of Children”, in The Evangelical Magazine, volume XIV, London: […] [G. Auld] for Williams and Smith, […], →OCLC, page 441:


throw

Pre-thee ſay on,
 The ſetting of thine eye, and cheeke proclaime
 A matter from thee; and a birth, indeed,
 Which throwes thee much to yeeld.

1610–1611 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tempest”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene i], page 8, column 1:

en-verb

throw (third-person singular simple present throws, present participle throwing, simple past threw, past participle thrown)

throws (present singular third-person)
throwing (participle present)
threw (past)
thrown (participle past)