quoit
English
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Etymology
From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Middle English coyte (“flat stone”), from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Old French coite, from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Latin culcita. Doublet of quilt.
Pronunciation
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- Rhymes: -ɔɪt
Noun
quoit (plural quoits)
- A flat disc of metal or stone thrown at a target in the game of quoits.
- 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.
Translations
flat disc thrown at a target
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Verb
quoit (third-person singular simple present quoits, present participle quoiting, simple past and past participle quoited)
- (intransitive) To play at quoits.
- Dryden
- to quoit, to run, and steeds and chariots drive
- Dryden
- (transitive) To throw as with a quoit.
- William Cowper's translation of 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
- William Cowper's translation of Homer's Iliad
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