Offthrow
noun, verb ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
- 1 The act of throwing off; (by extension) liberation countable, uncountable
"The theory of a rise of a dome of strata from beneath the sea and the offthrow of the waters on all sides from that dome, their escape through lateral fractures in the upheaved chalk, together with a slow wearing back of the fractured and denuded edges of the chalk in the form of cliffs, […]"
- 2 That which is thrown off (i.e. discarded, ejected, or emitted) countable, uncountable
"[…] comparatively speaking, few are convinced of, or perhaps acquainted with the fact, that not only do the bed-clothes intercept and retain a large proportion of this offthrow, but that it penetrates both beds and mattresses, which actually absorb a large proprtion of it, […]"
- 1 To throw or cast off (all senses) ambitransitive
"Thorns of the flesh in childhood man offthrows, Or passions such in headlong youth he knows; […]"
Example
More examples"The theory of a rise of a dome of strata from beneath the sea and the offthrow of the waters on all sides from that dome, their escape through lateral fractures in the upheaved chalk, together with a slow wearing back of the fractured and denuded edges of the chalk in the form of cliffs, […]"
Etymology
From off- + throw.
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