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Quoit

//kɔɪt// noun, verb

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Noun
  1. 1
    A flat disc of metal or stone thrown at a target in the game of quoits.

    "He heard then a warm heavy sigh, softer, as she turned over and the loose brass quoits of the bedstead jingled. Must get those settled really."

  2. 2
    game equipment consisting of a ring of iron or circle of rope used in playing the game of quoits wordnet
  3. 3
    A ring of rubber or rope similarly used in the game of deck-quoits.
  4. 4
    The flat stone covering a cromlech.

    "This quoit was brought from a karn about a furlong distance, near which is another cromlech, not so large."

  5. 5
    An ancient burial mound, synonymous with dolmen.
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  1. 6
    The discus used in ancient sports.
Verb
  1. 1
    To play quoits. intransitive

    "Then, to preſerve the Fame of ſuch a deed, / For Python ſlain, he [Phoebus or Apollo] Pythian Games decreed. / Where Noble Youths for Maſterſhip ſhou'd ſtrive, / To Quoit, to Run, and Steeds and Chariots drive."

  2. 2
    To throw like a quoit. transitive

    "Each took / His ſtation, and Epeüs ſeized the clod. / He ſwung, he caſt it, and the Greecians laugh'd. / Leonteus, branch of Mars, quoited it next."

Etymology

Etymology 1

From Middle English coyte (“flat stone”), from Old French coite, from Latin culcita. Doublet of quilt.

Etymology 2

From Middle English coyte (“flat stone”), from Old French coite, from Latin culcita. Doublet of quilt.

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