5. An effort; a violent sally. [Obs.]
Your youth admires
The throws and swellings of a Roman soul.
Addison. 6. (Mach.) 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.
7. (Pottery) A potter's wheel or table; a jigger. See 2d Jigger, 2 (a).
8. A turner's lathe; a throwe. [Prov. Eng.]
9. (Mining) The amount of vertical displacement produced by a fault; — according to the direction it is
designated as an upthrow, or a downthrow.