pain; especially, pain of travail; throe.-time; while; space of time; moment; trice.-to fling, cast, or hurl with a certain whirling motion of the arm, to throw a ball; -- distinguished from to toss, or to bowl.-to fling or cast in any manner; to drive to a distance from the hand or from an engine; to propel; to send; as, to throw stones or dust with the hand; a cannon throws a ball; a fire engine throws a stream of water to extinguish flames.-to drive by violence; as, a vessel or sailors may be thrown upon a rock.-to cause to take a strategic position; as, he threw a detachment of his army across the river.-to overturn; to prostrate in wrestling; as, a man throws his antagonist.-to cast, as dice; to venture at dice.-to put on hastily; to spread carelessly.-to divest or strip one's self of; to put off.-to form or shape roughly on a throwing engine, or potter's wheel, as earthen vessels.-to give forcible utterance to; to cast; to vent.-to bring forth; to produce, as young; to bear; -- said especially of rabbits.-to twist two or more filaments of, as silk, 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.-to perform the act of throwing or casting; to cast; specifically, to cast dice.-the act of hurling or flinging; a driving or propelling from the hand or an engine; a cast.-a stroke; a blow.-the distance which a missile is, or may be, thrown; as, a stone's throw.-a cast of dice; the manner in which dice fall when cast; as, a good throw.-an effort; a violent sally.-the extreme movement given to a sliding or vibrating reciprocating piece by a cam, crank, eccentric, or the like; travel; stroke; as, the throw of a slide valve. also, frequently, the length of the radius of a crank, or the eccentricity of an eccentric; as, the throw of the crank of a steam engine is equal to half the stroke of the piston.-a potter's wheel or table; a jigger. see 2d jigger, 2 (a).-a turner's lathe; a throwe.-the amount of vertical displacement produced by a fault; -- according to the direction it is designated as an upthrow, or a downthrow.