quoits

/ (kɔɪts) /

pl n

(usually functioning as singular) a game in which quoits are tossed at a stake in the ground in attempts to encircle it

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How to use quoits in a sentence

Broil it carefully and rare, then go and toss quoits with Hercules.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 16, No. 97, November, 1865 | Various
Charley jingled a pocketful of pennies—Speckport pennies at that—as large as quoits.
A Changed Heart | May Agnes Fleming
But the shy look and the blush were exceedingly well got up, and Charley dropped the quoits with a delighted face.
A Changed Heart | May Agnes Fleming
quoits hung up on several large nails driven into a wall, and there was a covered skittle alley.
Dr. Jolliffe's Boys | Lewis Hough
Nathless, I love words: they are the quoits, the bows, the staves that furnish the gymnasium of the mind.
George Eliot's Life, Vol. I (of 3) | George Eliot

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