Clues for the word "THROW"
We've had 89 crossword clues used for this word, and seen it 216 times in crosswords. It was last seen in Daily Cryptic crossword on October 16, 2025.
Definition of throw
- n. - Pain; especially, pain of travail; throe.
- n. - Time; while; space of time; moment; trice.
- v. t. - To fling, cast, or hurl with a certain whirling motion of the arm, to throw a ball; -- distinguished from to toss, or to bowl.
- v. t. - 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.
- v. t. - To drive by violence; as, a vessel or sailors may be thrown upon a rock.
- v. t. - To cause to take a strategic position; as, he threw a detachment of his army across the river.
- v. t. - To overturn; to prostrate in wrestling; as, a man throws his antagonist.
- v. t. - To cast, as dice; to venture at dice.
- v. t. - To put on hastily; to spread carelessly.
- v. t. - To divest or strip one's self of; to put off.
- v. t. - To form or shape roughly on a throwing engine, or potter's wheel, as earthen vessels.
- v. t. - To give forcible utterance to; to cast; to vent.
- v. t. - To bring forth; to produce, as young; to bear; -- said especially of rabbits.
- v. t. - 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.
- v. i. - To perform the act of throwing or casting; to cast; specifically, to cast dice.
- n. - The act of hurling or flinging; a driving or propelling from the hand or an engine; a cast.
- n. - A stroke; a blow.
- n. - The distance which a missile is, or may be, thrown; as, a stone's throw.
- n. - A cast of dice; the manner in which dice fall when cast; as, a good throw.
- n. - An effort; a violent sally.
- n. - 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.
- n. - A potter's wheel or table; a jigger. See 2d Jigger, 2 (a).
- n. - A turner's lathe; a throwe.
- n. - The amount of vertical displacement produced by a fault; -- according to the direction it is designated as an upthrow, or a downthrow.
Referring Clues
- Kind of pillow
- Quarter's worth at a carnival, maybe
- Intentionally lose
- Dice roll
- Host, as a party
- Purposely lose
- Lose on purpose
- Chuck
- Shape on a potter's wheel
- ___ over (forsake)
- Shape clay on a potter's wheel
- Pitch
- Cast
- Shawl, e.g.
- Fling
- 17-, 28-, 47- and 62-Across begin with a synonym of this
- Toss
- Rig, as a fight
- Baserunners try to beat it
- Judo move
- Befuddle
- Stone's ___ (short distance)
- ___ off the scent
- Hurl
- Martial arts move
- Discombobulate
- Word with rug or pillow
- Have a fling?
- Do it with a fit or a party
- Peg
- Lose illegally
- Afghan,maybe
- Light blanket
- Attempt at a dunk tank
- Judo maneuver
- Fielder's assist, e.g.
- Toss of the dice
- Afghan
- Toss or hurl
- Cast worth changing
- Extremely tough line for cast
- Cast worth altering
- Cast, shed
- Word before pillow or rug
- Do this with a rose, toward star
- Confuse - cast
- Launch brief article on line
- Light cloth cover for furniture
- Chuck is worth reforming
- Make a pot worth ordering
- Produce pottery of doubtful worth?
- Chuck from Heathrow
- It's worth getting excited when you have a fling
- Half of them brawl and hurl things!
- Faze host and cast
- Cast appearing in "The Endless Column"
- Chuck - confuse
- Perplex with illegal delivery
- Disconcerting way to produce pottery?
- Project to cause confusion
- Short time in tug showing pitch
- Cast worth putting into new production
- Confuse shy host
- Project
- Clarify, help to explain
- Fling; confound
- Could be worth a go
- What you must do to die is worth work
- Chuck, it seems, is of doubtful worth!
- To chuck
- Cast leading pair in third series
- What one might do to the last parts of 17- and 60-Across and 11- and 28-Down
- Propel or perplex
- Chuck though the air
- Lob
- Shawl
- Judo technique
- Loosen up, to a pitcher
- Dice toss
- Chuck? He gets an article from the airport
- Comfy couch accessory
- Roll of the dice
- Light bed cover ... and a verb that goes with the first parts of this puzzle's four longest answers
- Produce pottery of doubtful worth?
- Confuse
- Word before "pillow" or "blanket"
- Decorative blanket
- Rhyme of 21-Across, but not a homophone of 43-Across
- Put on, as a party
Last Seen In
- Daily Cryptic - October 16, 2025
- Evening Standard Quick - September 24, 2025
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- Evening Standard Quick - July 24, 2025
- Evening Standard Easy - June 18, 2025
- Your Life Choices - June 17, 2025
- Evening Standard Quick - May 08, 2025
- New Zealand Herald - March 28, 2025
- Daily Quick - March 27, 2025
- New Zealand Herald - March 22, 2025
- Daily Cryptic - March 16, 2025
- King Syndicate - Eugene Sheffer - February 25, 2025
- USA Today - February 12, 2025
- Mindfood Daily - February 10, 2025
- Daily Quick - February 06, 2025
- USA Today - February 01, 2025
- King Syndicate - Eugene Sheffer - February 01, 2025
- Your Life Choices - January 05, 2025
- Daily American - November 27, 2024
- New York Times - November 12, 2024
- Evening Standard Quick - October 25, 2024
- New York Times - August 07, 2024
- Daily Quick - July 31, 2024
- Mirror Mini - July 30, 2024
- Evening Standard Quick - July 09, 2024
- Evening Standard Quick - June 28, 2024
- USA Today - June 22, 2024
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