Word Meanings - OVERTHROW - Book Publishers vocabulary database

To throw over; to overturn; to upset; to turn upside down.

• THROWCROOK
  An instrument used for twisting ropes out of straw.
• Overturning
  of Overturn
• 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
• Overturnable
  Capable of being, or liable to be, overturned or subverted.
• UPSETTINGTHERMOMETER
  A thermometer by merely inverting which the temperature may be registered. The column of mercury is broken and, as it remains until the instrument is reset, the reading may be made at leisure.
• Overturner
  One who overturns.
• Throw-crook
  An instrument used for twisting ropes out of straw.

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