quoit

plural quoits

1. A flat disc of metal or stone thrown at a target in the game of quoits.

   He heard then a warm heavy sigh, softer, as she turned over and the loose brass quoits of the bedstead jingled. Must get those settled really.

   1922 February 2, James Joyce, “[Episode 4: Calypso]”, in Ulysses, Paris: Shakespeare and Company […], →OCLC, part II [Odyssey], page 54

2. A ring of rubber or rope similarly used in the game of deck-quoits.
3. The flat stone covering a cromlech.

   This quoit was brought from a karn about a furlong distance, near which is another cromlech, not so large.

   1817, Charles Sandoe Gilbert, A Historical Survey of the County of Cornwall, page 175

4. An ancient burial mound, synonymous with dolmen.
5. The discus used in ancient sports.

present singular third person quoits · participle present quoiting · participle past quoited · past quoited

1. intransitiveTo play quoits.

   Then, to preſerve the Fame of ſuch a deed, / For Python ſlain, he [Phoebus or Apollo] Pythian Games decreed. / Where Noble Youths for Maſterſhip ſhou'd ſtrive, / To Quoit, to Run, and Steeds and Chariots drive.

   1717, John Dryden, “Book I”, in Ovid’s Metamorphoses in Fifteen Books. […], London: […] Jacob Tonson, […], →OCLC, page 20

2. transitiveTo throw like a quoit.

   Each took / His ſtation, and Epeüs ſeized the clod. / He ſwung, he caſt it, and the Greecians laugh'd. / Leonteus, branch of Mars, quoited it next.

   1791, Homer, “[The Iliad.] Book XXIII.”, in W[illiam] Cowper, transl., The Iliad and Odyssey of Homer, Translated into Blank Verse, […], volume I, London: […] J[oseph] Johnson, […], →OCLC, page 630, lines 1038–1041

   Synonyms: fling, toss, bung, cast, chuck, chunk, cook, dash