thrower
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8.2
- noun
- /ˈθroʊər/
:
alfarero
- PHOTO: Warriors on a Maya vase: the man at right wields a javelin and a spear-thrower.
Examples
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The accidental killing of an Israeli girl (whose story and name were given qualitatively different coverage) by a settler who had fired at Palestinian stone-throwers gave the Washington Post reporter another opportunity.
Academic text (1991) -
He was a high jumper, broad jumper, shot putter, discus thrower, and ran on the relay team.
Academic text (1990) -
He talks about specific policy, rather than being a bomb thrower obsessed with the Republican talking points.
Blog text (13) -
The smaller points appropriate for projectile weapons, such as javelins flung with spear-throwers, become widespread later.
Academic text (1991) -
The javelins propelled by spear-throwers, instead, are long-distance weapons that can be thrown by masses of warriors.
Academic text (1991) -
Ironically, you named two of the biggest bomb throwers in the Senate, as DeMint and Paul are always good for a snappy soundbite, but rarely talk much about their positive proposals.
Blog text (13) -
ILLUSTRATION: Bearing his club and spear-thrower, the victorious Smoking-Frog dominates Stela 5 in the defeated city of Uaxactun.
Academic text (1991) -
The flint shield of the Classic period became a round sun disk, with an ancestral warrior armed with a spear-thrower and javelins emerging from an otherworldly portal to join his descendants in their fight to create an empire.
Academic text (1991) -
"Schlamperei" (an untranslatable Austrian version of "sloppiness"), I want to say, but I am also touched by the man's trust in this age of kidnappers and bomb throwers.
Fiction book (1990) -
The skilled thrower shaped the clay into beautiful pots on the wheel.
Synonyms
219
3.9
A person who shapes clay into pots and heats them to make them hard
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6.9
A person who makes pots and other things from clay and hardens them by heating
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8.2
A person who makes objects from clay by shaping them and baking them in a hot oven
1
5.1
A person who shapes clay into pots and hardens them with heat
Compounds
- Archaic
A device that throws explosive charges into the sea to attack submarines from a ship
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Thrower used for a potter comes from throw in the sense 'to turn' or 'shape', and -er means 'one who'. So a pottery thrower is someone who turns the wheel to shape clay.