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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