quoits
Britishplural noun
Vocabulary lists containing quoits
Example Sentences
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There were games of deck quoits and bridge.
From BBC • Sep. 28, 2014
Enthusiastic cameramen, having pictured the Governor golfing, wished him to pose clutching a tennis racquet, bestriding a horse, pitching quoits.
From Time Magazine Archive
Meanwhile last week the Metropolitan pitched débuts like quoits, one or more every night: Rose Bampton, a comely, full-voiced contralto from Buffalo, sang Laura in La Gioconda on the company's first Tuesday-night trip to Philadelphia.
From Time Magazine Archive
Students found time to start a literary society, publish a magazine, and indulge in diversions that met with faculty approval: boating, fishing, wicket and quoits.
From Time Magazine Archive
They used to play quoits in the road with four big steel washers they’d found in a hardware store but these were gone with everything else.
From "The Road" by Cormac McCarthy
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