quoit


Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
quoit /kɔɪt, kwɔɪt/
noun
  • 1 a ring of iron, rope, or rubber thrown in a game to encircle or land as near as possible to an upright peg.

    ■ (quoits) [treated as sing.] a game of aiming and throwing quoits.

  • 2 the flat covering stone of a dolmen.

    ■ a dolmen.

  • 3 Austral. informal a person's buttocks.
verb archaic throw like a quoit.
– origin ME: prob. of Fr. origin.
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