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Webster 1913 Edition


Quoit

Quoit

(kwoit or koit)
,
Noun.
[OE.
coite
; cf. OF.
coitier
to spur, press, (assumed) LL.
coctare
, fr. L.
coquere
,
coctum
, to cook, burn, vex, harass, E.
cook
, also W.
coete[GREEK]
a quoit.]
1.
(a)
A flattened ring-shaped piece of iron, to be pitched at a fixed object in play; hence, any heavy flat missile used for the same purpose, as a stone, piece of iron, etc.
(b)
pl.
A game played with quoits.
Shak.
2.
The discus of the ancients. See
Discus
.
3.
A cromlech.
[Prov. Eng.]
J. Morley.

Quoit

,
Verb.
I.
To throw quoits; to play at quoits.
To
quoit
, to run, and steeds and chariots drive.
Dryden.

Quoit

,
Verb.
T.
To throw; to pitch.
[Obs. or R.]
Shak.

Webster 1828 Edition


Quoit

QUOIT

,
Noun.
1.
A kind of horse shoe to be pitched or thrown at a fixed object in play. In common practice, a plain flat stone is used for this purpose.
2.
In some authors, the discus of the ancients, thrown in trials of strength.

QUOIT

,
Verb.
I.
To throw quoits; to play at quoits.

QUOIT

,
Verb.
T.
To throw. [Not used.]

Definition 2024


quoit

quoit

English

The equipment used for the game of deck-quoits. The quoits are the rings of rope.
An 1817 fashion plate depicting three women and a man playing an inverse ring toss, in which they are tossing a quoit

Noun

quoit (plural quoits)

  1. A flat disc of metal or stone thrown at a target in the game of quoits.
  2. A ring of rubber or rope similarly used in the game of deck-quoits.
  3. The flat stone covering a cromlech.
  4. The discus used in ancient sports.

Translations

Verb

quoit (third-person singular simple present quoits, present participle quoiting, simple past and past participle quoited)

  1. To play at quoits.
    • Dryden:
      to quoit, to run, and steeds and chariots drive

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