quoit
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- noun
- /kwɔɪt/
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- During the summer festival, many families participated in a friendly game of quoit tossing.
- play quoits
Examples
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She used to drag the girls by an arm to the headmaster's office, rap their fingers, and not let them play at quoits.
Fiction book (1995) -
Quoits, they were called, in Cornwall.
Fiction book (1991) -
When she had finished it, she joined the group playing quoits.
Fiction book (1995) -
Crouch solid, be steady, like the stone quoit, stone on earth and stone on stone, the hollow not under but within.
Fiction book (1991) -
The dancing began, and someone struck up a song, and Tamborel went to play quoits with Meynoc and the others.
Fiction book (1993) -
Right next to the wine tasting was the Mountain Biking Australia tent where I grabbed myself a free magazine and went to read it in the sunshine while watching Gumby get clobbered with tires as part of Kenda quoits.
Blog text (25) -
She watched as her friends took turns throwing the quoit at the stake in the sunny park.
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After setting up the equipment, they were ready to play quoit for hours of fun.
Surface Forms
Etymology
Quoit comes from an old word for a 'ring' or something 'twisted into a circle', like a small 'hoop'. So a quoit is the flat ring you throw at a stake in the game, which makes the origin easy to remember.