Throwing table

Throwing table
Throwing Throw"ing, a. & n. from {Throw}, v. [1913 Webster]

{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. [1913 Webster]


The Collaborative International Dictionary of English. 2000.

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