[
UK
/kwˈɔɪt/
]
NOUN
- game equipment consisting of a ring of iron or circle of rope used in playing the game of quoits
How To Use quoit In A Sentence
- Activities include making sandships, pirate quoits and walking the plank for young rogues. Times, Sunday Times
- In the Rochester area — ZIP codes starting with "146," which includes Brighton, Chili, Gates, Greece and Irondequoit — the number of mailboxes dropped from 635 in 2001 to 598 this year, said Donna Hennessey, customer relations coordinator for Rochester branches of the postal service. 12% Fewer Neighborhood Mailboxes | Impact Lab
- Its activities were designed to provide healthy recreation for young people, and included competitions in running, jumping, quoits, cricket and football.
- The talon emerged, clutching ready for action a six-pound iron quoit. THE PRINCESS
- A cheese eater from the moment I was born, I have always turned my nose up at the footling quoits and mini-pyramids of cream the French call cheese.
- In which case, how about a game of quoits? Times, Sunday Times
- His one hand slipped into his pocket and clutched the quoit. THE PRINCESS
- Thought cruises were about permatanned ladies and gentlemen of a certain age playing deck quoits and waiting their turn to dine at the captain's table? Times, Sunday Times
- By this you may see the boldnesse of those buzards, that think themselves hectors when they see but their shadowes, & tremble when they see a Iroquoit. Voyages of Peter Esprit Radisson
- It uses rubber rings and to make up for their lack of shape, one side is coloured black, the other white and any quoit which falls black side up, doesn't score.