QUOIT

n. v.

6 definitions — Webster’s Dictionary (1828)


1.
n.

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.

2.
n.

A game played with quoits. Shak.

3.
n.

The discus of the ancients. See Discus.

4.
n.

A cromlech. [Prov. Eng.] J. Morley.

5.
v.

To throw quoits; to play at quoits. To quoit, to run, and steeds and chariots drive. Dryden.

6.
v.

To throw; to pitch. [Obs. or R.] Shak.


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