Hurl or toss Crossword Clue
While searching our database we found 1 possible solution for the: Hurl or toss crossword clue. This crossword clue was last seen on September 9 2024 Newsday Crossword puzzle. The solution we have for Hurl or toss has a total of 5 letters.
Rank | Answer | Clue | Publisher |
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99% | THROW | Hurl or toss | Newsday |
Definition
• | 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. |
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- Newsday: Sep 9, 2024
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