quoit

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Pronunciation

• (British) IPA: /kɔɪt/
• (America) IPA: /kɔɪt/, /kwɔɪt/

Noun

quoit (plural quoits)

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

   • 1922 , James Joyce, Ulysses, chapter IV:

     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. 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.

Verb

quoit (quoits, present participle quoiting; past and past participle quoited)

1. (intransitive) To play at quoits.

   • to quoit, to run, and steeds and chariots drive

2. (transitive) To throw as with a quoit.
   • , William Cowper (translator), Homer's Iliad

     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.

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