quoit

American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

1. n. Upper Northern U.S. A game in which flat rings of iron or rope are pitched at a stake, with points awarded for encircling it.
2. n. Upper Northern U.S. One of the rings used in this game.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

1. To throw as a quoit; throw.
2. To throw quoits; play at quoits.
3. n. A flattish ring of iron, used in playing a kind of game. It is generally from 8¼ to 9½, inches in external diameter, and between 1 and 2 inches in breadth, convex on the upper side and slightly concave on the under side, so that the outer edge curves downward, and is sharp enough to cut into soft ground.
4. n. plural The game played with such rings. Two pins, called hobs, are driven part of their length into the ground some distance apart; and the players, who are divided into two sides, stand beside one hob, and in regular succession throw their quoits (of which each player has two) as near the other hob as they can. The side which has the quoit nearest the hob counts a point toward game, or, if the quoit is thrown so as to surround the hob, it counts two. The game only slightly resembles the ancient exercise of throwing the discus, which has, however, been often translated by this English word.
5. n. A quoit-shaped implement used as a weapon of war; a discus. Those used by the Sikhs are of polished steel with sharp edges, and are sometimes richly ornamented with damascening or the like.
6. n. In archaeology, same as dolmen.

Wiktionary

1. n. a flat disc of metal or stone thrown at a target in the game of quoits
2. n. a ring of rubber or rope similarly used in the game of deck-quoits
3. n. the flat stone covering a cromlech
4. v. To play at quoits.

GNU Webster's 1913

1. n. A flattened ring-shaped piece of iron, to be pitched at a fixed object in play; hence, any heavy flat missile used for the same purpose, as a stone, piece of iron, etc.
2. n. A game played with quoits.
3. n. The discus of the ancients. See Discus.
4. n. Prov. Eng. A cromlech.
5. v. To throw quoits; to play at quoits.
6. v. Obs. or R. To throw; to pitch.

WordNet 3.0

1. n. game equipment consisting of a ring of iron or circle of rope used in playing the game of quoits