quoit

noun

A game in which players toss rings of metal, rope, or rubber at a stake, trying to get each ring to land with the stake through its center or close to the stake.

noun

One of the rings used in this game.

To throw as a quoit; throw.

To throw quoits; play at quoits.

noun

A flattish ring of iron, used in playing a kind of game.

noun

plural The game played with such rings.

noun

A quoit-shaped implement used as a weapon of war; a discus.

noun

In archaeology, same as dolmen.

transitive verb

To throw; to pitch.

intransitive verb

To throw quoits; to play at quoits.