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offthrow

noun

Etymology

From off- + throw.

  1. derived from *terh₁-✻ — “to rub, rub by twisting, twist, turn”
  2. inherited from *þrēaną✻ — “to twist, turn”
  3. inherited from *þrāan✻
  4. inherited from þrāwan — “to turn, twist”
  5. inherited from throwen
  6. formed as offthrow — “off- + throw”

Definitions

  1. The act of throwing off

    The act of throwing off; (by extension) liberation

    • Improbable, therefore, it is that the offthrow of the Ottoman yoke by the former, will not be followed by the offthrow of the German and Russian yokes by the latter, Nationalities.

  2. That which is thrown off (i.e. discarded, ejected, or emitted)

    • In this latter or northern offthrow, nearly the whole of Peeblesshire consists, and the general dip or inclination of its rocks is accordingly northerly, or more strictly, towards north-north-west.
    • These are the sports, the offthrows, of the universe instead of the species; these are the weird children of the lust of the spheres.

  3. To throw or cast off (all senses)

    • Thorns of the flesh in childhood man offthrows, Or passions such in headlong youth he knows; […]
    • "[…] I stand a scarecrow in this land That offthrew the yoke of autocracy."

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