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Definition of Outthrow
1. v. t. To throw out.
Definition of Outthrow
1. Verb. To throw out. ¹
2. Verb. To excel in throwing, as in ball playing. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Outthrow
1. to throw farther or more accurately than [v -THREW, -THROWN, -THROWING, -THROWS]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Outthrow
Literary usage of Outthrow
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Melbourne universal exhibition, 1880. France. notices on the designs by Melbourne internat. exhib, France Ministère des travaux publics (1880)
"In the latter case, much more than in that of violent dislocation? and strong
lateral thrusts, the outthrow of the faults must have been produced in the ..."
2. Jamieson's Dictionary of the Scottish Language: In which the Words are by John Jamieson, John Johnstone (1867)
"To gae outthrow, to return from the Inner part towards the outer, S. 3. ...
and outthrow any thing, to examine or try it in every direction, Angus. ..."
3. The Popular Science Monthly (1894)
"It is simply a secretion—an outthrow of the living flesh of the hen—and which
acquires from it nothing more than a composition nearly identical with it, ..."
4. English Garner: Ingatherings from Our History & Literature by Edward Arber (1896)
"Fifteen afore," said " London " then; Her balls full fair she gan outthrow. "
Thirty " said the second gun, " I will win and I may. ..."
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