Pronunciation Noun
quoit (plural quoits)
- 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.
- A ring of rubber or rope similarly used in the game of deck-quoits.
- The flat stone covering a cromlech.
- The discus used in ancient sports.
quoit (quoits, present participle quoiting; past and past participle quoited)
- (intransitive) To play at quoits.
- to quoit, to run, and steeds and chariots drive
- (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.
- Each took
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