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forthrow

verb

Etymology

From Middle English forthrowen (“to hurl”); equivalent to for- + throw.

  1. inherited from forthrowen — “to hurl”

Definitions

  1. To throw off

    To throw off; cast off; reject.

    • The two stand endlessly facing one another, "Ahab in his scuttle, the Parsee by the mainmast; but still fixedly gazing upon each other; as if in the Parsee Ahab saw his forthrown shadow, in Ahab the Parsee his abandoned substance" [...]

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for forthrow. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA