Noah Webster
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.]