out-throw

present singular third person out-throws · participle present out-throwing · past out-threw · participle past out-thrown

1. Alternative form of outthrow.
   1. To throw outward.

      Thy heart, it is a diamond And noble rays out-throweth.

      1911, Heinrich Heine, John Payne, The Poetical Works of Heinrich Heine

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      Engrossed in the rich, transparent beauty, pathos, and wisdom of Virgil, and the living rhetoric of Cicero's elaborate pleadings, as well as those other classic writers of antiquity, who, amidst outward barbarism, darkness, and dismayful ignorance, then brought to the student's lonely heart the solemnized civilization of the past, the light, fragrance, and magic of genius, and the hope of a time coming to him, too, when the world shall listen to his voice, and he may win admiration, or draw tears, by the out-throwing of his thoughts—Luther invigorated his spirit by his student toils, enriched his mind by the noble sayings, and graphic images, of orator and poet, and fed his ambition for the attainment of the marvellous faculty of power, which literary culture gives, by training his unworn and tender youth—"To scorn delights, and live laborious days;"

      1862, S. N., “Martin Luther-The Reformation”, in The British Controversialist and Literary Magazine, volume 2, page 8

      No man ever forgot his laugh—genial, hearty and out-thrown; and no friend who knew him well has failed to see the struggle to keep the mist back from the eyes when he was listening to or narrating a pathetic story .

      1871, N. S. Dodge, “Seasonable Words About Dickens”, in Overland Monthly and Out West Magazine, volume 6, page 80

   2. To surpass in throwing.

      Don't try to out-throw the Jo. He wasn't drafted by the NFL for nothing.

      2022, Cindy Dees, Over the Edge

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      My whole life I had been forced together with him at every family gathering, and he had used every opportunity to out-throw me, outrun me, out-eat me.

      2012, Tawni O'Dell, Back Roads

      They had the same thing—running races and I outran everybody and out-threw everybody but one fellow, and he had the same name I had, John Wilson, a big, blond-haired kid from up in Alexandria, which is nine miles from here.

      2015, Brent Kelley, The Negro Leagues Revisited, page 272

plural out-throws

1. paper recyclingPaper of a grade that is not within the acceptable specifications.

   Up to 2% prohibitive materials and 5% out-throws are allowed.

   1996, Tappi Journal - Volume 79, page 178

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   Out-throws include permitted prohibited materials. Allowable out-throws range from 0% to 10% , with most grades limiting out-throws to 1% or 2%.

   1991, Ken L. Patrick, Paper Recycling: Strategies, Economics, and Technology, page 67

   Out-throws include sorted white ledger paper, colored paper, coated and chemically treated paper, CPO, manila file folders, newspaper, and cardboard.

   1997, Debra L. Strong, Recycling in America, page 73