The Collaborative International Dictionary
Throwing \Throw"ing\, a. & n. from Throw, v.
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.
Wiktionary
n. A small, rotating circular table of variable speed used in the manufacture of ceramics.
Usage examples of "throwing wheel".
Seema hurried across the shadowy snow toward the edge of the glacier, leaving Atreus little opportunity to study the vale he had come so far to visit From what he could see, the basin was filled with ice, as was every valley in the high Yehimals, and shaped like a ceramic bowl gone bad on the throwing wheel.
Seema hurried across the shadowy snowtoward the edge of the glacier, leaving Atreus little opportunity to study the vale hehad come so far to visit From what he could see, the basin was filled with ice, as was every valley in the high Yehimals, and shaped like a ceramic bowl gone bad on the throwing wheel.