quoit

QUOIT, n.

1. A kind of horse shoe to be pitched or thrown at a fixed object in play. In common practice, a plain flat stone is used for this purpose.

2. In some authors, the discus of the ancients, thrown in trials of strength.

QUOIT, v.i. To throw quoits; to play at quoits.

QUOIT, v.t. To throw. [Not used.]