Meaning

(nonstandard, dialectal) simple past of throw; threw..

Definitions by Sense

1. (nonstandard, dialectal) simple past of throw; threw.
2. (nonstandard, dialectal) past participle of throw; thrown.

Example Sentences

1991, Ben K Green, Some More Horse Tradin’ http://books.google.com/books?ie=UTF-8&hl=en&vid=ISBN0803270925&id=IkYA69A0Me0C&pg=PA29&lpg=PA29&sig=qMZfjtlvPlVLAVpmCe6OsQkXkuw I’d lost my hat, tore my fingernails off on the saddle horn, and was damn near throwed when he lost his breath and throwed his head up and stopped!

2003, Mark Harris, The Southpaw http://books.google.com/books?ie=UTF-8&hl=en&vid=ISBN0803273371&id=ZcXrSFki8LYC&pg=PA42&lpg=PA42&sig=luXWpLfgFo79Qyrz6QZ0yzyqrrU I throwed slow and easy, and I felt in my mind like the sight of Pop out there on that same pitching hill.

I come a booming down on a cut bank with smoky ghosts of big trees on it, and the current throwed me off to the left and shot by, amongst a lot of snags that fairly roared, the current was tearing by them so swift.

The Devil looked around and he picked the next biggest one he could find and he throwed it over the fence.

If they want a light-weight, to be throwed for practice, Cornwall, Devonshire, or Lancashire, let ’em throw me.

I reckoned Tom Sawyer couldn’t a done it no neater himself. Of course he would a throwed more style into it, but I can’t do that very handy, not being brung up to it.

The Blocker was a versatile loop. It could be throwed from hossback or afoot, and could be used for a head ketch, heelin’, or forefootin’.

They had one motel in that town, and friends of ours owned it, but we got throwed out of it before it got dark after they got to fighting.

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