Sentence:  When Dangerfield put the little roll in his hand, Irons looked suspicious and frightened, and balanced it in his palm, as if he had thoughts of <WSD>chucking</WSD> it from him, as though it were literally a satanic douceur. But it is hard to part with money, and Irons, though he still looked cowed and unhappy, put the money into his breeches' pocket, and he made a queer bow ... 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  To discard, to throw away.