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Thrower

noun

A person who twists silk or rayon filaments into a thread or yarn. Synonym: throwster.

Someone who projects something (especially by a rapid motion of the arm).

A craftsman who shapes pottery on a potter's wheel and bakes them it a kiln. Synonyms: ceramicist, ceramist, potter.

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"Thrower" Quotes from Famous Books

... boomerang hurled just going over its back and returning to the thrower after the fashion of a disappointed dog, while the little animal took refuge in a tree, leaping from bough to bough till brought down by one of a little shower ...

— King o' the Beach - A Tropic Tale • George Manville Fenn

... to the subject at one time, and was getting on, as I thought, fairly well; but the old hands told me that I should never be any real good at it, and advised me to give it up. They said that I was an extremely neat thrower, and that I seemed to have plenty of gumption for the thing, and quite enough constitutional laziness. But they were sure I should never make anything of a fisherman. I ...

— Three Men in a Boa • Jerome K. Jerome

... would hit them or want to fight, or would play mean tricks on them. Still, sometimes Danny behaved himself, and then the boys were glad to have him on their baseball nine as he was a good hitter and thrower, and he ...

— The Bobbsey Twins at School • Laura Lee Hope

... of a screw is that it possesses a flat end, on which it will stand erect. In this position it is delicately placed so that when struck by a cherry "hog" it falls. Each boy in turn throws a certain number of "hogs" at the screw, the successful thrower gathers in the spoil and goes home with his pocket bursting with ...

— London's Underworld • Thomas Holmes

... to try for Grim Hagen's trained soldiers first. Odin saw an old Bron cast a home-made spear with as much ease as a trained javelin-thrower back home. A soldier tried to pull it out of his chest until his legs buckled beneath him and he tumbled ...

— Hunters Out of Space • Joseph Everidge Kelleam

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