An act of throwing.
In the Eton College wall game, a point scored by lifting the ball against the wall in the calx.
In soccer, a throw-in from the sidelines, using two hands above the head. In shinty, the act of tossing the ball above the head and hitting it with the shaft of the caman to bring it back into play after it has been hit out of the field.
A place for throwing.
A sudden start aside, as by a horse.
To avoid due to caution, embarrassment or timidness.
(transitive) or (intransitive) To throw a ball with two hands above the head, especially when it has crossed the side lines in a football (soccer) match. To hit the ball back into play from the sidelines in a shinty match.
To jump back in fear.
To throw sideways with a jerk; to fling.
Easily frightened; timid.
Embarrassed.
Cautious; wary; suspicious.
Reserved; disinclined to familiar approach.
Short, insufficient or less than.
A pitch where the pitcher swings his arm in a circular motion before throwing the ball.
A child's toy consisting of vanes mounted on a stick that rotate when blown by a person or by the wind.
Any of various muscle exercises in which a large deal of the body makes a great circle, typically one where a kettlebell is raised overhead and the torso is rotated to the other side with the hand reaching its foot (hitting the core, glutes, hamstrings, trapezius, rhomboids, deltoids and rotator cuffs) but sometimes even a windshield wiper.
Any of various large papilionid butterflies of the genus Byasa, the wings of which resemble the vanes of a windmill.
An imaginary enemy, but presented as real.
A guitar move where the strumming hand mimics a turning windmill.
A machine which translates linear motion of wind to rotational motion by means of adjustable vanes called sails.
The structure containing such machinery.
The false shower.
A breakdancing move in which the dancer rolls his/her torso continuously in a circular path on the floor, across the upper chest, shoulders and back, while twirling the legs in a V shape in the air.
A dunk where the dunker swings his arm in a circular motion before throwing the ball through the hoop.
To rotate with a sweeping motion.
Of a rotating part of a machine, to (become disengaged and) rotate freely.