Definition of "quoit"

quoit

/kɔɪt/

noun
plural quoits
1. A flat disc of metal or stone thrown at a target in the game of quoits.
  Quotations
  He heard then a warm heavy sigh, softer, as she turned over and the loose brass quoits of the bedstead jingled. Must get those settled really.
  1922 February, James Joyce, “[Episode 4: Calypso]”, in Ulysses, Paris: Shakespeare and Company, […], part II [Odyssey], page 54
2. A ring of rubber or rope similarly used in the game of deck-quoits.
3. The flat stone covering a cromlech.
4. An ancient burial mound, synonymous with dolmen.
5. The discus used in ancient sports.
verb
third-person singular simple present quoits, present participle quoiting, simple past and past participle quoited
1. (intransitive) To play quoits.
  Quotations
  Then, to preſerve the Fame of ſuch a deed, / For Python ſlain, he [Phoebus or Apollo] Pythian Games decreed. / Where Noble Youths for Maſterſhip ſhou'd ſtrive, / To Quoit, to Run, and Steeds and Chariots drive.
  1717, John Dryden, “Book I”, in Ovid’s Metamorphoses in Fifteen Books. […], London: […] Jacob Tonson, […], page 20
2. (transitive) To throw like a quoit.
  Quotations
  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.
  1791, Homer, W[illiam] Cowper, transl., “[The Iliad.] Book XXIII.”, in The Iliad and Odyssey of Homer, Translated into Blank Verse, […], volume I, London: […] J[oseph] Johnson, […], page 630, lines 1038–1041

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