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quoits::noun | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | horseshoes |
| Type of | outdoor game |
Examples of quoits
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Just about my only firsthand claim to a truly foreign sport would have to be quoits.
From the sfgate.com
That tribute went to the early colonial games which included quoits, stilts and skittles.
From the nzherald.co.nz
The latter saw the team and clients compete in games including football, golf and quoits.
From the thisisbristol.co.uk
Quoits claims its origins in the peasant customs of ancient Greece.
From the nzherald.co.nz
Guests can participate in nine-man morris, quoits and log tossing.
From the post-gazette.com
Quoits became a pub sport with fighting erupting regularly between rival teams and their supporters.
From the nzherald.co.nz
If quoits doesn't do it for you then what about stilts?
From the nzherald.co.nz
Forget deck quoits, pink gins and white-jacketed stewards.
From the time.com
Grind corn, try on armor, play quoits and ninepins and more.
From the inrich.com
- Game equipment consisting of a ring of iron or circle of rope used in playing the game of quoits
- (quoits) a game in which iron rings (or open iron rings) are thrown at a stake in the ground in the hope of encircling it
- The quoit is a type of brooch (often circular) popular during Saxon times. It was affixed with a single, straight, unclasped pin. It is thought to be an evolutionary link between Roman belt devices and the modern belt buckle.
- Quoits (koits, kwoits) is a traditional game which involves the throwing of metal, rope or rubber rings over a set distance, usually to land over or near a spike (sometimes called a hob, mott or pin). The sport of Quoits encompasses several distinct variations.
- (Quoits) To play at quoits in dreams, foretells low engagements and loss of good employment. To lose, portends of distressing conditions.
- (Quoits) English game similar to horseshoes but the throwing device is a rubber ring and players try to ring it around a peg in the ground
- (Quoits) the sport of throwing the quoit or of playing quoits. A quoit is aimed at a peg stuck in the ground, and is intended to fall with the ring surrounding it, or as to cut into the ground as close as possible to it. ...
- Cornish name for burial chamber or dolmen
- Cornish word for a dolmen
