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Webster's 1828 Dictionary · 1828 1 of 3

Part of speech: noun (n.)

1. 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) pl.

2. A game played with quoits. Shak.

3. The discus of the ancients. See Discus.

4. A cromlech. [Prov. Eng.] J. Morley.

Webster's 1828 Dictionary · 1828 2 of 3

Part of speech: verb (v.)

To throw quoits; to play at quoits. To quoit, to run, and steeds and chariots drive. Dryden.

Webster's 1828 Dictionary · 1828 3 of 3

Part of speech: verb (v.)

To throw; to pitch. [Obs. or R.] Shak.

Noah Webster's American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Structured JSON vendored from sktzofrenic/webster1828 at commit 5a58d9e0191eefaa51affbc1bb1b8bc5782ba6c0. The upstream README identifies the dictionary text as public domain and the project license as MIT.

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