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Definition of Throwe
1. n. A turning lathe.
Definition of Throwe
1. a spasm [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Throwe
Literary usage of Throwe
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Works of the English Poets, from Chaucer to Cowper: Including the Series by Alexander Chalmers, Samuel Johnson (1810)
"... So that within a littell throwe Hon that Ihe daie was fast by, The daies light
she might knowe. 'I'ho she beheld the sea at large, And whan she sigh ..."
2. Ryme-index to the Ellesmere Manuscript of Chaucer's Canterbury Talesby Geoffrey Chaucer by Geoffrey Chaucer (1875)
"418/471. knowe, pp. 417/453; lowe, a. 66/2299; adv. 484/216; throwe, n. 160/953.
k no we, ... 417/452 ; throwe, n. 417/450. trowe, 1 s. pres. blowe, inf. ..."
3. Ancient Critical Essays Upon English Poets and Poësy by George Gascoigne, William Webbe, James, John Harington, Francis Meres, Thomas Campion, Samuel Daniel, Edmund Bolton, Edmund Spenser, Gabriel Harvey (1811)
"... And endlesse roundell wth- a throwe, Swifter than shaft out of a bowe, Or
cannon shott: O bootless? ..."
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