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quoit

[kwoit, koit] / kwɔɪt, kɔɪt /


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A Philadelphia trophy was inscribed: "Given by the German-American Bund; quoit tournament, 1937."

From Time Magazine Archive

“Let’s see...earlier I was eating ice cream. Right now I’m tossing this quoit ring.”

From "The House of Hades" by Rick Riordan

Jason had no idea what a quoit was, but he tried to stay focused.

From "The House of Hades" by Rick Riordan

Away up among them is another huge quoit or cromlech, probably marking the burial-place of some chieftain long before Arthur's date.

From Cornwall by G. E. (Geraldine Edith) Mitton

Formerly, in the country, the rustics, not having the round perforated quoits to play with, used horse-shoes; and in many places the quoit itself, to this day, is called a shoe.

From Folk-lore of Shakespeare by Thomas Firminger Thiselton-Dyer




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