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 singular] a game consisting of aiming and throwing quoits.
2 The flat covering stone of a dolmen.
• [often in place names] the dolmen itself: New Stone Age burial remains at Zennor Quoit.
3 Australian informal a person's buttocks.
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A game of quoits is like our game of horseshoes in the U.S.
ReplyDeleteLovely game... long time since I'v played it with my (then) little children
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I've played, but it's been a long while
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I've played that when i was younger, but it was never easy!
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