different between thrower vs throwed

English

Etymology

throw +? -er

Pronunciation

Noun

thrower (plural throwers)

1. Someone who throws.
2. Something that throws.
3. (archaic) One who throws or twists silk; a throwster.
4. (archaic) One who shapes vessels on a throwing engine.
5. (cricket) A bowler who illegally throws the ball instead of bowling it.
6. (baseball, slang, 1800s) The pitcher.

Derived terms

• discus thrower
• flamethrower
• javelin thrower
• sand thrower

Translations

Anagrams

• rethrow

English

Etymology

Regularized form of threw and thrown.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /????d/

Verb

throwed

1. (nonstandard, dialectal) simple past tense of throw; threw.
   • 1991, Ben K Green, Some More Horse Tradin’ [3]

     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 [4]

     I throwed slow and easy, and I felt in my mind like the sight of Pop out there on that same pitching hill.

2. (nonstandard, dialectal) past participle of throw; thrown.
   • 1852-3, Charles Dickens, Bleak House [5]

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

   • 1885, Mark Twain, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn [6]

     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.

   • 1991, Ben K Green, Some More Horse Tradin’ [8]

     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!

Anagrams

• worthed