Someone who projects something through the air (especially by a rapid motion of the arm)

Usage examples of thrower.

Freshly bespectacled, Victor Weluhn -- for it was he -- allegedly went so far as to have a beer on the Holzmarkt, and then another, for the flame throwers had made him thirsty.

Several flinched away, clearly expecting another incendiary, or more hurricane winds, but one of the braver souls stepped forward and slapped at the bomb with his hand, trying to send it right back at its thrower.

His spear thrower had a giant deer with huge palmate antlers, and she marveled at it as well.

Bus, however, was carrying a portable bolt thrower and engaged the scorps with it as the rest of the team spread out to the side.

Leonard, a product of the Emerald Isle, was brought up in New Jersey, and excelled as an outfielder, being a splendid judge of high balls, a sure catch, and a swift and accurate long-distance thrower.

Owain was a target for a dozen spears, but most missed and the others he swept contemptuously aside with spear or shield before mocking the throwers.

Such a one, by his longer reach, will not only save many wide throws, but, because he is a good mark to throw at, will inspire confidence in the throwers.

Which should have been, thought Foster, more than enough to subdue an impoverished pocket principalityfive hundred cavalrymen, three thousand infantry and arquebusiers or crossbowmen, eight large bombards, and probably three or four times that number of smaller cannon, plus the inevitable catapults and spear throwers.

Her feelings were those which might have animated a general of ancient warfaring days, on beholding his heaviest battle-elephant ignominiously driven off the field by slingers and javelin throwers.

Then we dropped down over them, flung a couple of mines into their dugout and let our submachine guns and flame throwers play along the narrow trench.

After that we drove full pelt down a couple of side streets, encountered a company of infantry and disposed of them, using first our flame throwers then machine guns, while the steel tracks of our tanks attended to the few survivors.

The idea was that, once the tanks had passed, we were to engage the infantry following them with our machine guns, flame throwers and possibly close-combat weapons, bayonet and spade.

On the twelve thousand square miles of that plain grew a forest of laser throwers, the true Hercules of the expedition.

So the girders ejected, from small throwers, a dust that burned in the sun, and the solaser carried out its move behind this screen, folding up into the shape of a closed fan.

You can see these people at campgrounds all over the country, standing around their vehicles comparing gadgets--methane-powered ice-cube makers, portable tennis courts, antiinsect flame throwers, inflatable lawns.