throwing mill

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throwing mill - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  Throwing \Throw"ing\,
     a. & n. from Throw, v.
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     Throwing engine, Throwing mill, Throwing table, or
     Throwing wheel (Pottery), a machine on which earthenware is
        first rudely shaped by the hand of the potter from a mass
        of clay revolving rapidly on a disk or table carried by a
        vertical spindle; a potter's wheel.
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