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quoit

/kɔɪt/US/kɔɪt/

quoit noun: a flat disc of metal or stone thrown at a target in the game of quoits.

Noun

quoit (plural quoits)

  1. A flat disc of metal or stone thrown at a target in the game of quoits.
    • 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.1922 February 2, James Joyce, “[Episode 4: Calypso]”, in Ulysses, Paris: Shakespeare and Company […], →OCLC, part II [Odyssey], page 54
  2. A ring of rubber or rope similarly used in the game of deck-quoits.
  3. The flat stone covering a cromlech.
    • This quoit was brought from a karn about a furlong distance, near which is another cromlech, not so large.1817, Charles Sandoe Gilbert, A Historical Survey of the County of Cornwall, page 175
  4. An ancient burial mound, synonymous with dolmen.
  5. The discus used in ancient sports.

Verb

quoit (third-person singular simple present quoits, present participle quoiting, simple past and past participle quoited)

  1. (intransitive) To play quoits.
    • Then, to preſerve the Fame of ſuch a deed, / For Python ſlain, he [Phoebus or Apollo] Pythian Games decreed. / Where Noble Youths for Maſterſhip ſhou'd ſtrive, / To Quoit, to Run, and Steeds and Chariots drive.1717, John Dryden, “Book I”, in Ovid’s Metamorphoses in Fifteen Books. […], London: […] Jacob Tonson, […], →OCLC, page 20
  2. (transitive) To throw like a quoit.
    • 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.1791, Homer, “[The Iliad.] Book XXIII.”, in W[illiam] Cowper, transl., The Iliad and Odyssey of Homer, Translated into Blank Verse, […], volume I, London: […] J[oseph] Johnson, […], →OCLC, page 630...

quoit meaning in Tamil and Kannada

quoit in Tamil

எறிவட்டு, பருதி

quoit in Kannada

ಕಬ್ಬಿಣದ ಎಸೆಬಳೆ, ಕೋಯಿಟ್, ಇದನ್ನು ಎಸೆಯುವ ಆಟ

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Forms of quoit

Noun
pluralquoits
Verb
third-person singular presentquoits
present participlequoiting
past participlequoited
pastquoited

Origin of quoit

From Middle English coyte (“flat stone”), from Old French coite, from Latin culcita. Doublet of quilt.

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Questions about quoit

What does quoit mean?
Quoit means a flat disc of metal or stone thrown at a target in the game of quoits.
What is quoit in Tamil?
Quoit in Tamil is எறிவட்டு, பருதி. See Quoit meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is quoit?
Quoit can be a noun or a verb.
How do you pronounce quoit?
Quoit is pronounced /kɔɪt/ (UK).
What is the plural of quoit?
The plural of quoit is quoits.

Words near quoit in the dictionary

  1. quoinless
  2. quoins
  3. quoins up
  4. quoiromantic
  5. quoisexual
  6. quoit
  7. quoited
  8. quoiter
  9. quoiters
  10. quoiting
  11. quoitlike

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: quoit (page history and authors); quoit (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); quoit (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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