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Quoit


QUOIT, noun

1. A kind of horse shoe to be pitched or thrown at a fixed object in play. In common practice, a plain flat stone is used for this purpose.

2. In some authors, the discus of the ancients, thrown in trials of strength.

QUOIT, verb intransitive To throw quoits; to play at quoits.

QUOIT, verb transitive To throw. [Not used.]