quoiting

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...

   Synonyms:

   fling, toss, bung, cast, chuck, chunk, cook, dash, dump, feck

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