throwster (throster)

[ There's rabbi Job a venerable silk-weaver, Jehu a throwster dwelling i' the Spital-fields. Middle ton and Rowley , World Tost at Tennis. Their engaging three hundred silk throusters here in one week for New York was treated as a fable, because, forsooth, they have "no silk there to throw. Franklin, Autobiog., p. 352. 2. One who throws dice; a gambler. When Who's to be in? Who out? was once more the question on every lip, I facied I could perceive ugly symptoms of the old sores being very likely to break out again, in case a certain bold throwster has swept the pool. Noctes Ambrosianæ , Sept., 1832. throw-stick (thrō'stik), n. A mi ile weapon, consisting of a short club or cudgel, designed to be thrown by being whirled from the hand instead of directly in the line of its length, as in the case of the javelin. The most common form is that of a short club having a heavy ball at one end, usually made of a single piece of hard wood. The boomerang in its different forms also belongs to this order of weapon. See cut under boomerang . thrught, thrucht, thruht, prep. Middle English forms of through1.