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quoit

noun as in disk

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

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In the 14th century, quoits, a game in which a metal disc is aimed at a wooden peg was considered so diverting that King Richard II banned the general public from playing it.

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They used to play quoits in the road with four big steel washers they’d found in a hardware store but these were gone with everything else.

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The Harvard psychologist Jerome Frank asked people to play a game of quoits—you throw rings onto a stick, as in an amusement-park test of skill.

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There were games of deck quoits and bridge.

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