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quoit

[kwoit, koit]
–noun
1. quoits, (used with a singular verb) a game in which rings of rope or flattened metal are thrown at an upright peg, the object being to encircle it or come as close to it as possible.
2. a ring used in the game of quoits.
–verb (used with object)
3. to throw as or like a quoit.
–verb (used without object)
4. to play quoits.

Origin:
1350–1400; ME coyte < ?


quoiter, noun
quoitlike, adjective
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