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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

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

From "The House of Hades" by Rick Riordan

“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

The Wharf, St Ives Zennor has a curious little church with carved bench ends, on one of which is represented a mermaid, and Zennor "quoit" is thought to be the largest cromlech in England.

From Cornwall by S. (Sabine) Baring-Gould

And they used to play at quoits also, and at throwing the javelin, with some grace:— They threw the quoit, and hurl'd the playful spear.

From The Deipnosophists, or Banquet of the Learned of Athen?us by Athen?us


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