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throwed verb Past tense and past participle of throw.

1834 (in 2003 TN Petitions II 208) they throwed down my house from over my property turnd my family out off doors exposed my property to the weather in my absence. 1861 Carden CW Letter (Oct 6) We lost one man out of our Co., John Martain. He died with the fever. there cannons throwed Afew bums. 1913 Kephart Our Sthn High 284 In many cases a weak preterite supplants the proper strong one: ... drawed, growed, knowed, throwed. 1939 Hall Coll (Little Cataloochee NC) They drug them [=bodies] out just a few steps from the trail and throwed them in a sink hole. 1973 GSMNP-84:29 They was an old abandoned house, an old big log house down here in an old big field, great big farm, that had been throwed out and growed up. 1978 Montgomery White Pine Coll X-2 Maybe it had been throwed off down there or something. 1989 Matewan OHP-7 I played [baseball] until I throwed my arm out of circulation.

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