Thrown

ppl. a. [ of THROW v.¹, where see Forms. See also special Scotch senses under THRAWN]

  I.  1. a. Turned on a lathe, as woodwork. Now dial. b. Shaped on the potter’s wheel. Cf. THROW v.¹ 6 a.

1483.  Cath. Angl., 385/1. Thrawen (A. Thrawne), tornalis.

1495.  Nottingham Rec., III. 40. Unam cathedram vocatam ‘a throwen’ cheyer.’

1535.  Coverdale, 2 Chron. iii. 5. He … ouerlayed it with the best golde, and made palme trees and throwne worke theron.

1600.  Acc. Bk. W. Wray, in Antiquary, XXXII. 279. A throwne chaire.

1853.  Ure, Dict. Arts, II. 455. When the ‘thrown ware’ is sufficiently dry, it is transferred to the hands of the ‘turner.’

1883.  W. Yorks. Gloss., Thrown, turned in a lathe (as bed-posts, &c.).

  2.  Of silk: Twisted into thread.

  Thrown silk: silk thread consisting of two or more singles twisted together: = ORGANZINE. Thrown singles: silk thread consisting of a single strand of raw silk that has been cleaned, wound, and twisted: see quot. 1877 s.v. THROW v.¹ 6 b. Also (in trade) absol. as sb.

1463–4.  Rolls of Parlt., V. 506/1. Wrought Silke, throwen Rybans and Laces.

1483.  [see THROW v.¹ 6 b].

1690.  Luttrell, Brief Rel. (1857), II. 45. An act for discouraging the importation of thrown silk.

1709.  Lond. Gaz., No. 4523/4. Some Piemond Thrown Silk … saved out of an Italian Ship.

1719.  W. Wood, Surv. Trade, 87. Oil, Wine, Thrown and Raw-silk, Wrought Silks.

1812.  J. Smyth, Pract. of Customs (1821), 214. Raw Silk has only one thread: the thrown Silk is distinguished from it by having two threads.

1844.  G. Dodd, Textile Manuf., vi. 184. Thrown singles, is silk which has been wound, cleaned, and thrown.

1883.  Times, 16 May, 11. In silk … Chinas have suffered from the reduced consumption of throwns.

1906.  Sat. Rev., 13 Jan., 38/2. They buy their silk in the spun or thrown state.

  † b.  Twisted; in a state of torsion. Obs.

1674.  N. Fairfax, Bulk & Selv. World, Contents, Open’d by the stirring of a watch, of thrown bodies, the springiness of an egge.

  II.  3. Cast, pitched, hurled; unseated from a horse.

1833.  Ht. Martineau, Berkeley the Banker, I. i. 18. The horse galloping away, and the thrown young lady lying on the ground.

1888.  Ruskin, in Mag. Art, Jan., 75/1. To put them together out of chance-thrown heaps.

  4.  With adverbs, as thrown-back, -down, -on, -over, -up, expressing the completed action of the corresponding verbal phrases (see THROW v.¹ VI).

1891.  C. Roberts, Adrift Amer., 146. They sat … on the mound made of the thrown-up earth from the burrows.

1901.  Westm. Gaz., 17 Oct., 2/2. The thrown-back front and sleeve both gave glimpses of their lining. Ibid. (1903), 8 Jan., 3/2. Some such thrown-on kind of wrap can be added for coming and going. Ibid., 4 June, 5/2. One fire was caused by a thrown-down light.