thrown (root: throw)

POS

Verb (usu participle)

COUNT IN NET NET

78 in 76 verses (in OT : 40 in 39 verses) (in NT : 38 in 37 verses)

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WORDNET DICTIONARY

Adjective thrown has 2 senses

thrown(s = adj.all) Array - caused to fall to the ground; "the thrown rider got back on his horse"; "a thrown wrestler"; "a ball player thrown for a loss"
thrown(s = adj.all) thrown and twisted - twisted together; as of filaments spun into a thread; "thrown silk is raw silk that has been twisted and doubled into yarn"

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CIDE DICTIONARY

thrown, a. & p. p.

a. & p. p. from Throw, v. [1913 Webster]

Thrown silk, silk thread consisting of two or more singles twisted together like a rope, in a direction contrary to that in which the singles of which it is composed are twisted. M'Culloch. -- Thrown singles, silk thread or cord made by three processes of twisting, first into singles, two or more of which are twisted together making dumb singles, and several of these twisted together to make thrown singles.

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