Meaning

(UK) A start in a hunt or a race..

Definitions by Sense

1. (UK) A start in a hunt or a race.
2. A race in which a contestant is paid to deliberately lose.
3. A control that engages or disengages part of the mechanism on a device without having to turn the device off.
4. (sports) A throw taken to resume play, such as after a goal or at the start of a period.
5. (accounting) Income minus expenses and depreciation (before tax).
6. (by extension) A discount on a debt or invoice due to a problem with the asset being paid for.
7. The act of flinging or throwing something off.
8. Something that is flung or thrown off.

Example Sentences

We had not covered much more than three miles since the throw-off; but horses and hounds already exhibited a most interesting and picturesque tail.

The sixty horsemen spread away for the start, the two pretty Amazons set their lips, a mob of peasants in blue blouses form a noisy fringing to the phaetons and barouches which have come to see the throw-off, and conspicuous amidst all this we have M. Pistache's roan, which, unable to stand the music of the horns, first jumps, then pivots on its hind legs, then springs off like a shot, well-nigh wrenching M. Pistache's arms out of their sockets.

The 'throw-off' was at one o'clock, and the gallop lasted more than two hours and a half, so that the fox had a very long run.

On one occasion the meet was at Boughton House, the seat of the Duke of Buccleuch, when, just before the throw-off, the keeper requested Mr. Smith to come with him to see a curious matter.

He would be available as a chaperon for the feminine division, as he did not intend to do more than canter a mile or two after the throw-off.

Since the spring of 1863 there has never been a throw-off race, nor shall there ever be a race on the track for hippodroming; all must be on the square, as the club started it for their own fun and to work their horses on.

By many it was thought to be a "throw off" race, and that Selaya did not do his best – I was inclined also to the opinion, although I may have been wrong

Fixed races, or "throw-offs, as they were called, were common enough to keep sprint running relegated to outlying areas during the 1870s.

Word Forms

• throw-offs
• throwoff
• throw off

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