Meaning

5 senses
  1. A flat disc of metal or stone thrown at a target in the game of quoits.

    Diskus, Wurfring

    мета́тельное кольцо́metátelʹnoje kolʹcó

  2. A ring of rubber or rope similarly used in the game of deck-quoits.

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

  3. The flat stone covering a cromlech.

  4. An ancient burial mound, synonymous with dolmen.

  5. The discus used in ancient sports.

Translations

3 languages
Русский
By meaning 1
flat disc thrown at a target:
Deutsch
By meaning 1
flat disc thrown at a target:

Origin

From Middle English coyte (“flat stone”), from Old French coite, from Latin culcita. Doubl

From Middle English coyte (“flat stone”), from Old French coite, from Latin culcita. Doublet of quilt.

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Forms

plural: quoits
Singularquoit
Pluralquoits

regular

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
quoit — meaning, examples, forms, synonyms | Krumeto