Quoit
Quoit (kwoit o koit) , noun
[Old English coite; compare Old French coitier to spur, press, (assumed) Late Latin coctare, from Latin coquere, coctum, to cook, burn, vex, harass, English cook, also Welsh coete{not transcribed} a quoit.]
1.
(a) 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.
(b)
A game played with quoits. — Shakespeare
2.
The discus of the ancients. See Discus.
3.
A cromlech. [Provincial English] — J. Morley
Quoit , intransitive verb
To throw quoits; to play at quoits.
To quoit, to run, and steeds and chariots drive.
Quoit , transitive verb
To throw; to pitch. [Obsolete or Rare] — Shakespeare