A flattened ring-shaped piece of iron, to be pitched at a fixed object in play; hence, any heavy flat missile used for the same purpose, as a stone, piece of iron, etc. (b) pl.
A game played with quoits. Shak.
The discus of the ancients. See Discus.
A cromlech. [Prov. Eng.] J. Morley.
To throw quoits; to play at quoits. To quoit, to run, and steeds and chariots drive. Dryden.
To throw; to pitch. [Obs. or R.] Shak.
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