Source : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

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.