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quoit

  [kwoit, koit]
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–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 < ?

Related forms:
quoiter, noun
quoitlike, adjective
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Word Origin & History

quoit 
1388, "curling stone," perhaps from O.Fr. coite "flat stone" (with which the game was originally played), lit. "cushion," variant of coilte (see quilt). Quoits were among the games prohibited by Edward III and Richard II to encourage archery. In ref. to a heavy flat iron ring (and the tossing game played with it) it is recorded from c.1440.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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