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quoit

American  
[kwoit, koit] / kwɔɪt, kɔɪt /

noun

  1. (used with a singular verb) quoits, a game in which rings of rope or flattened metal are thrown at an upright peg, the object being to encircle it or come as close to it as possible.

  2. a ring used in the game of quoits.

verb (used with object)

  1. to throw as or like a quoit.

verb (used without object)

  1. to play quoits.

quoit British  
/ kɔɪt /

noun

  1. a ring of iron, plastic, rope, etc, used in the game of quoits

  2. slang a variant spelling of coit

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

Other Word Forms

  • quoiter noun
  • quoitlike adjective

Etymology

Origin of quoit

1350–1400; Middle English coyte < ?

Vocabulary lists containing quoit

Scrabble: Words that Begin with Q

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Example Sentences

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A Philadelphia trophy was inscribed: "Given by the German-American Bund; quoit tournament, 1937."

From Time Magazine Archive

“Let’s see...earlier I was eating ice cream. Right now I’m tossing this quoit ring.”

From "The House of Hades" by Rick Riordan

Jason had no idea what a quoit was, but he tried to stay focused.

From "The House of Hades" by Rick Riordan

Suppose a man has wrestled well, or runs fast, or has hurled a quoit, or given a black eye in fine style, has he done the State a service by the crowns he won?

From A Problem in Greek Ethics Being an inquiry into the phenomenon of sexual inversion by Symonds, John Addington

Some very good players can cast a quoit so that it falls about the hub.

From What Shall We Do Now?: Five Hundred Games and Pastimes by Fisher, Dorothy Canfield

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