Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun One who or that which throws.
- noun A turner. See
throw , n., 1.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun One who throws. Specifically: (a) One who throws or twists silk; a throwster. (b) One who shapes vessels on a throwing engine.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun Someone who
throws . - noun Something that
throws . - noun archaic One who throws or twists
silk ; athrowster . - noun archaic One who
shapes vessels on a throwing engine. - noun cricket A
bowler whoillegally throws the ball instead ofbowling it. - noun baseball, slang, 1800s The
pitcher .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a person who twists silk or rayon filaments into a thread or yarn
- noun someone who projects something (especially by a rapid motion of the arm)
- noun a craftsman who shapes pottery on a potter's wheel and bakes them it a kiln
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Examples
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If they catch the ball, the thrower is out, and, in some leagues, the catcher's teammate comes back in the game.
Wiffle ball, dodgeball, kickball make sports fun for adults 2010
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To clarify: all one needs to make a flame-thrower is a can of hairspray and a cigarette lighter.
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Although barely five-feet-five inches, Bucky is a superlative javelin thrower, weight-lifter and all-around athlete as well as a good-hearted, upstanding young man who wants nothing more than to inculcate decency in his charges.
David Finkle: Easy Reader: Philip Roth's Nemesis an Instant Classic David Finkle 2010
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As the head of the Congressional Hispanic Caucus, he has a responsibility to help craft an acceptable plan that can pass Congress ... not just be a bomb thrower from the LEFT.
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But when it comes to making a difference, and not just prancing around pretending to be wise, one good bomb-thrower is better than forty wimps.
With regard to the health care rationing bill passing: Don’t get mad. | RedState 2010
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Although barely five-feet-five inches, Bucky is a superlative javelin thrower, weight-lifter and all-around athlete as well as a good-hearted, upstanding young man who wants nothing more than to inculcate decency in his charges.
David Finkle: Easy Reader: Philip Roth's Nemesis an Instant Classic David Finkle 2010
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Seriously, the election isn't about how you feel about some third-rate bomb-thrower from the sixties or how the ossified nitwits at Commentary feel about you. res ipsa loqui …
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The shoe thrower is probably in some former Soviet block country being tortured right now!
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Lemme guess … his flame thrower is his pipi del fuego.
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He also was a conference champion javelin thrower and is a member of Florida A&M's athletic Hall of Fame.
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