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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Quoit \Quoit\ (kwoit or koit), noun [OE. coite; cf. OF. coitier to spur, press, (assumed) LL. coctare, fr. L. coquere, coctum, to cook, burn, vex, harass, E. cook, also W. coete? a quoit.] 1. (a) 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.
2. The discus of the ancients. See {Discus}.
3. A cromlech. [Prov. Eng.] --J. Morley.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Quoit \Quoit\, verb (used without an object) To throw quoits; to play at quoits.
To quoit, to run, and steeds and chariots drive. --Dryden.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Quoit \Quoit\, verb (used with an object) To throw; to pitch. [Obs. or R.] --Shak.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
quoit
noun: game equipment consisting of a ring of iron or circle of rope used in the game of quoits
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
35 Moby Thesaurus words for "quoit": anklet, armlet, ball, band, belt, bracelet, cincture, cingulum, collar, collarband, discus, earring, ecliptic, ejecta, ejectamenta, equator, fascia, fillet, finger ring, girdle, girt, girth, great circle, hoop, missile, neckband, necklace, nose ring, projectile, ring, trajectile, wristband, wristlet, zodiac, zone
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