Definitions for quoit

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quoit quoit

Spelling: [kwoit, koit]

IPA: /kwɔɪt, kɔɪt/

Quoit is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 14 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 15 points.

You can make 35 anagrams from letters in quoit (ioqtu).

Definitions for quoit

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)

1. to throw as or like a quoit.

verb (used without object)

1. to play quoits.

Origin of quoit

1350-1400; Middle English coyte

Examples for quoit

A quoit that falls with its flat side upward does not count.

The quoit was the ancient weapon of the Sikh, who calls it chakar.

She took off her hat, and threw it, like a quoit, on to the bed.

In deep gravity they tossed a ball, or pitched a quoit, or engaged in wrestling.

Disciform or Disk-shaped, flat and circular, like a disk or quoit.

Contestants are given some object like a quoit, a block of wood, etc.

His one hand slipped into his pocket and clutched the quoit.

Drooping like Hyacinthus beneath the blow of the quoit, he sank on Amyas's arm.

And in throwing the quoit Elatrius excelled; and in leaping at the bar, Amphialus.

Democritus, that it is like a quoit externally, and hollow in the middle.