Word Meanings - DOWNTHROW - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The sudden drop or depression of the strata of rocks on one side of a fault. See Throw, n.

• Stratagem
  An artifice or trick in war for deceiving the enemy; hence, in general, artifice; deceptive device; secret plot; evil machination.
• ROCKSTAFF
  An oscillating bar in a machine, as the lever of the bellows of a forge.
• Stratagemical
  Containing stratagem; as, a stratagemical epistle.
• THROWCROOK
  An instrument used for twisting ropes out of straw.
• Depression
  The act of depressing.
• Stratarithmetry
  The art of drawing up an army, or any given number of men, in any geometrical figure, or of estimating or expressing the number of men in such a figure.
• THROWINGSTICK
  An instrument used by various savage races for throwing a spear; -- called also throw stick and spear thrower. One end of the stick receives the butt of the spear, as upon a hook or thong, and the other end is grasped with the hand, which also holds the
• Fault-finder
  One who makes a practice of discovering others' faults and censuring them; a scold.
• Throwing
  of Throw
• Fault-finding
  The act of finding fault or blaming; -- used derogatively. Also Adj.
• Throw-crook
  An instrument used for twisting ropes out of straw.

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