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thrower

thrower noun: someone who throws.

Noun

thrower (plural throwers)

  1. Someone who throws.
  2. Something that throws.
  3. A flamethrower.
    • Twenty yards or so of the fence was lying flat, with the posts snapped off. I rigged it up temporarily there and then and played the thrower back and forth, giving the things enough of a scorching to prevent more trouble for a few hours at least.1951, John Wyndham, The Day of the Triffids, Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, published 1954, page 239
  4. (archaic) One who throws or twists silk; a throwster.
  5. (archaic) One who shapes vessels on a throwing engine.
  6. A bowler who illegally throws the ball instead of bowling it.
  7. (slang) The pitcher.

Proper noun capitalized: Thrower

Thrower (plural Throwers)

  1. A surname.

thrower meaning in Kannada, Sanskrit, Arabic and Persian

thrower in Kannada

ಎಸೆತಗಾರ, ಎಸೆಗಾರ, ಎಸಕ

thrower in Sanskrit

thrower
अगस्ति agasti

thrower in Arabic

someone who or something that throws
رَامٍ rāmin

thrower in Persian

someone who or something that throws
پرتابنده partābande, افکننده afkanande

Forms of thrower

Noun
pluralthrowers
Proper noun
pluralThrowers

Plural of thrower: throwers

Origin of thrower

From Middle English thrower, equivalent to throw + -er.

Words formed from thrower

Phrases with thrower

Questions about thrower

What does thrower mean?
Thrower means someone who throws.
What is thrower in Kannada?
Thrower in Kannada is ಎಸೆತಗಾರ, ಎಸೆಗಾರ, ಎಸಕ. See Thrower meaning in Kannada.
What part of speech is thrower?
Thrower can be a noun or a proper noun.
What is the plural of thrower?
The plural of thrower is throwers.

Words near thrower in the dictionary

  1. throwees
  2. Throwend
  3. Throwendham
  4. Throwendish
  5. Throwends
  6. thrower
  7. throwers
  8. throwes
  9. throwest
  10. throweth
  11. throwie

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: thrower (page history and authors); Thrower (page history and authors); thrower (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors); अगस्ति (Sanskrit) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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