quoit
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Etymology
[edit]From Middle English coyte (“flat stone”), from Old French coite, from Latin culcita. Doublet of quilt.
Pronunciation
[edit]- (UK) IPA(key): /kɔɪt/
Audio (Southern England): (file)
- (US) IPA(key): /kɔɪt/, /kwɔɪt/
- (dialectal, obsolete) IPA(key): /kweɪt/[1]
- Rhymes: -ɔɪt
Noun
[edit]quoit (plural quoits)
- A flat disc of metal or stone thrown at a target in the game of quoits.
- 1922 February, James Joyce, “[Episode 4: Calypso]”, in Ulysses, Paris: Shakespeare and Company, […], →OCLC, part II [Odyssey], page 54:
- He heard then a warm heavy sigh, softer, as she turned over and the loose brass quoits of the bedstead jingled. Must get those settled really.
- A ring of rubber or rope similarly used in the game of deck-quoits.
- The flat stone covering a cromlech.
- 1817, Charles Sandoe Gilbert, A Historical Survey of the County of Cornwall, page 175:
- This quoit was brought from a karn about a furlong distance, near which is another cromlech, not so large.
- An ancient burial mound, synonymous with dolmen.
- The discus used in ancient sports.
Translations
[edit]flat disc thrown at a target
Verb
[edit]quoit (third-person singular simple present quoits, present participle quoiting, simple past and past participle quoited)
- (intransitive) To play quoits.
- 1717, John Dryden, “Book I”, in Ovid’s Metamorphoses in Fifteen Books. […], London: […] Jacob Tonson, […], →OCLC, page 20:
- (transitive) To throw like a quoit.
- 1791, Homer, W[illiam] Cowper, transl., “[The Iliad.] Book XXIII.”, in The Iliad and Odyssey of Homer, Translated into Blank Verse, […], volume I, London: […] J[oseph] Johnson, […], →OCLC, page 630, lines 1038–1041:
- Each took / His ſtation, and Epeüs ſeized the clod. / He ſwung, he caſt it, and the Greecians laugh'd. / Leonteus, branch of Mars, quoited it next.
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