throw2t

andv. An obsolete spelling of throe1. throw3t (thro), n. [Also throe; I wol with Thomas speke a litel throwe . Chaucer, Summoner's Tale, 1. 107. A man shall stodye or musyn now a long throw Which is which. Booke of Precedence (E. E. T. S., extra ser.), i. 106. Downe himselfe he layd Upon the gra y ground to sleepe a throw . Spenser, F. Q., III. iv. 53. You throw for a large stake, but, losing, you could stake and throw again. Sheridan, The Rivals, ii. 1. In 1716, the barrow-women of London used generally to carry dice with them, and children were induced to throw for fruit and nuts, as indeed was any person of a more advanced age. G. A. Sala , Make your Game, p. 205. 3t. To fall; be cast down. He stumbled on the thre hewolde an threwe to the erthe. Piers Plowman (B), v. 357. Throwing at cocks. Same as cock - throwing . - To throw about, to cast about; try expedients. [Rare.] Now unto despaire I 'gin to growe, And meane for better winde about to throwe. Spenser, Mother Hub. Tale, 1. 80. To throw back, to revert to some ancestral character; exhibit atavism: a breeders' term: as, a tendency in some animals to throw back for several generations. Darwin, Var. of Animals and Plants, I. 211. [Colloq.] - To throw off, to start in a hunt or race. [Eng.] - To throw out, to fail to register, or print pages or colors in exact position: said of a worn or shackly printing-machine. To throw up, to vomit.