quoit
IPA: kwɔɪt
noun
- A flat disc of metal or stone thrown at a target in the game of quoits.
- A ring of rubber or rope similarly used in the game of deck-quoits.
- The flat stone covering a cromlech.
- An ancient burial mound, synonymous with dolmen.
- The discus used in ancient sports.
verb
- (intransitive) To play quoits.
- (transitive) To throw like a quoit.
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Examples of "quoit" in Sentences
- His one hand slipped into his pocket and clutched the quoit.
- The talon emerged, clutching ready for action a six-pound iron quoit.
- Simultaneously Slim reached for his quoit, and Whiskers and Fatty for their rocks.
- This was why: Before Sabol left, the two played a backyard game called quoit, similar to horseshoes.
- Bruce Cadogan Cavendish pulled forth his iron quoit and seemed to debate whether or not he should brain the other.
- The one hand of Bruce Cadogan Cavendish flashed pocketward and flashed back with the quoit balanced ripe for business.
- 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
- 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
- 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.
- 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.
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