Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A game in which players toss rings of metal, rope, or rubber at a stake, trying to get each ring to land with the stake through its center or close to the stake.
- noun One of the rings used in this game.
from The Century Dictionary.
- To throw as a quoit; throw.
- To throw quoits; play at quoits.
- noun A flattish ring of iron, used in playing a kind of game.
- noun plural The game played with such rings.
- noun A quoit-shaped implement used as a weapon of war; a discus.
- noun In archaeology, same as
dolmen .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- transitive verb Obs. or R. To throw; to pitch.
- intransitive verb To throw quoits; to play at quoits.
- noun 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.
- noun A game played with quoits.
- noun The discus of the ancients. See
Discus . - noun Prov. Eng. A cromlech.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun a flat
disc of metal or stone thrown at atarget in the game ofquoits - noun a
ring ofrubber orrope similarly used in the game of deck-quoits - noun the flat
stone covering acromlech - verb To play at
quoits .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun game equipment consisting of a ring of iron or circle of rope used in playing the game of quoits
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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This was why: Before Sabol left, the two played a backyard game called quoit, similar to horseshoes.
Freep.com - RSS 2008
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Olympic truce; and among these is Aristotle the philosopher, who adduces as a proof of it the quoit which is at Olympia, on which the name of
Plutarch's Lives, Volume I 46-120? Plutarch 1839
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The Discus was a kind of quoit of a round form, made sometimes of wood, but more frequently of stone, lead, or other metal; as iron or brass.
The Ancient History of the Egyptians, Carthaginians, Assyrians, Babylonians, Medes and Persians, Macedonians and Grecians (Vol. 1 of 6) Charles Rollin 1701
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His one hand slipped into his pocket and clutched the quoit.
THE PRINCESS 2010
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The one hand of Bruce Cadogan Cavendish flashed pocketward and flashed back with the quoit balanced ripe for business.
THE PRINCESS 2010
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The talon emerged, clutching ready for action a six-pound iron quoit.
THE PRINCESS 2010
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Simultaneously Slim reached for his quoit, and Whiskers and Fatty for their rocks.
THE PRINCESS 2010
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Bruce Cadogan Cavendish pulled forth his iron quoit and seemed to debate whether or not he should brain the other.
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And the Colchians gave a loud cry, like the roar of the sea when it beats upon sharp crags; and speechless amazement seized Aeetes at the rush of the sturdy quoit.
The Argonautica 2008
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But Jason bethought him of the counsels of Medea full of craft, and seized from the plain a huge round boulder, a terrible quoit of Ares
The Argonautica 2008
brtom commented on the word quoit
"(The brass quoits of a bed are heard to jingle.)"
Joyce, Ulysses, 15
February 8, 2007
jaime_d commented on the word quoit
"The discobolus, she continued, who presently appeared on the anxious trot to ask the bloody impressionist and the screaming Madame Monet if they had seen his quoit was a bassetted and spatted Englishman whose carp's mouth and plaid knickerbockers sprang from the pages of Jerome K. Jerome."
--Guy Davenport in "A Field of Snow on a Slope of the Rosenberg"
January 19, 2010