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quoited

quoited is the simple past and past participle of quoit.

Meaning of quoit

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...

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Questions about quoited

What is quoited the simple past and past participle of?
Quoited is the simple past and past participle of quoit.

Words near quoited in the dictionary

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

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