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▪ I. quoit, n.|kɔɪt, kwɔɪt|
Forms: α. 4–7 coyte, 5–6 (9) coite, 6 c(h)oytte, 7 coyt, coight, 6– coit. β. 7 quoite, quoyt(e, 6– quoit. γ. 6–7 quaite, 7 quayte, queit, 8 quait.
[Of obscure etym.; the variation of form between coit, quoit, and quait prob. indicates a French origin.
Derivation from OF. coitier, quoitier ‘to prick, spur, incite, hasten’, has been suggested, but it does not appear that this vb. had also the sense ‘to throw, hurl’, which would be necessary to make the connexion probable; and the n. coite, quoite means only ‘prick (of spur), encounter, haste’.]
1. a. In orig. and widest sense (now only with ref. to the Greek and Roman discus), a flat disc of stone or metal, thrown as an exercise of strength or skill; spec. in mod. use, a heavy flattish ring of iron, slightly convex on the upper side and concave on the under, so as to give it an edge capable of cutting into the ground when it falls, if skilfully thrown. Also, the ring of rope, rubber, etc. used in deck-quoits and similar games (see 2).
αc1440Promp. Parv. 86/1 Coyter, or caster of a coyte, petreludus. Coyte, petreluda. c1449Pecock Repr. i. xx. 120 That men..schulden pleie..bi casting of coitis. 1530Palsgr. 206/2 Coyte to playe with, palet. Coyte of stone, bricoteav. 1591Harington Orl. Fur. xiii. xxxiv, This like a coight at them Orlando tost. 1657R. Ligon Barbadoes (1673) 28 There is no part of it so broad, but you may cast a Coyte over it. 1711Addison Spect. No. 56 ⁋4 Some of them were tossing the Figure of a Coit. 1807Crabbe Par. Reg. ii. 393 Tossed the broad coite or took th' inspiring ale.
βc1611Chapman Iliad xxiii. 388 Nestors sonne..got as farre before, As any youth can cast a quoyte. 1715–20Pope Iliad xxiii. 712 Tho' 'tis not thine to hurl the distant Dart, The Quoit to toss. 1783Crabbe Village 1, Who..made the pond'rous quoit obliquely fall. 1843Lytton Last Bar. i. i, They had learned to wrestle,..to pitch the bar or the quoit. 1870Bryant Iliad II. xxiii. 360 As far as flies a quoit Thrown from the shoulder of a vigorous youth.
γ1560[see b]. 1658J. Jones tr. Ovid's Ibis 144 If Queit thou cast into the open air, let Queit thee kill like Hyacinth the fair. 1711J. Greenwood Eng. Gram. 188 Coit, quait.
†b. Phr. a quoit's cast, quoit's distance, the distance to which a quoit is commonly thrown. Obs.
a1490Botoner Itin. (1778) 147 Distans per spacium coytys cast. 1560Whitehorne Ord. Souldiours xxiv, It would scant be able to drive their pellettes a quaites caste. a1604Hanmer Chron. Irel. (1633) 10 The Welch Prophet could not see a quoits cast from him. 1644Milton Areop. (Arb.) 57 Every acute reader..will be ready..to ding the book a coits distance from him. 1791Cowper Iliad xxiii. 648 Menelaus..fell A full quoit's cast behind.
c. A curling-stone. rare.
1827Hone Every-day Bk. II. 164 The stones used are called coits, or quoits, or coiting, or quoiting-stones.
2. pl. (rarely sing.) The sport of throwing the quoit or of playing with quoits; in one modern form of this the quoit is aimed at a pin stuck in the ground, and is intended to fall with the ring surrounding this, or to cut into the ground as near to it as possible. deck-quoits, an imitation of this game, played on shipboard with rings of rope.
1388Act 12 Rich. II, c. 6 §1 Les jeues appelez coytes dyces [etc.]. 1477Rolls Parlt. VI. 188/1 No persone shuld use any unlawfull Pleys, as Dise, Coyte, Foteball. 1527Galway Arch. in 10th Rep. Hist. MSS. Comm. App. V. 402 Plainge at choyttes or stonis. 1551Robinson tr. More's Utop. i. (1895) 57 Lewde, and vnlawfull games, as..tennyes, bolles, coytes. 1592Lyly Galathea ii. iv, I will now..play at quaites abroade. 1621Burton Anat. Mel. ii. ii. iv. 342 Keelpins, tronkes, coits..are the common recreations of countrey folks. 1708W. King Cookery 117 He..From Nine-pins, Coits, and from Trap-ball abstains. 1841Q. Rev. LXVII. 355 Devoting hours on hours to quoits, cricket, and so forth. 1847Tennyson Princ. iii. 199 Quoit, tennis, ball—no games? 1892E. Reeves Homeward Bound 22 One of the best amusements provided on shipboard is ‘Quoits’.
3. transf.
†a. A quoit-shaped stone or piece of metal. Obs. rare.
1593P. Nichols Drake Revived (1628) 78 Thirteene bars of siluer, and some few quoits of Gold. Ibid. 79 Promising to give him a fine quoit of gold. a1635Corbet Iter Bor. 114 No pompous weight Upon him, but a pebble, or a quayte.
b. The flat covering stone of a cromlech or cist; also, by extension, a cromlech or cist as a whole.
1753Borlase in Phil. Trans. XLVIII. 87 A flat rock..(which in our country [Cornwall] we call a quoit). Ibid., On the top of this quoit there is a remarkable incision. 1827G. Higgins Celtic Druids Pref. 49 Under this Quoit I caused to be sunk a pit. 1867Max Müller Chips (1870) III. xiii. 291 In Bosprennis Cross there was a very large coit or cromlech. 1887Baring-Gould Red Spider I. ii. 18 A rude granite slab..[which] had been the ‘quoit’ of a great prehistoric dolmen or cromlech.
c. The backside, the buttocks. Phr. to go for one's quoit, to hurry. Austral. slang.
1941Baker Dict. Austral. Slang 58 Quoit, the buttocks. Ibid., Go for one's quoits, to travel quickly, go for one's life. 1951E. Lambert Twenty Thousand Thieves x. 165 See those jokers sitting on their quoits over there? 1952J. Cleary Sundowners i. 42 Going for the lick of his coit up the street. 1954T. A. G. Hungerford Sowers of Wind xiv. 176 Gawd, he blew the tripes outa me for nothing at all, and then he kicks a Nip in the coit. 1972J. Bailey Wire Classroom x. 82 ‘I think he needs a good kick up the coit,’ says Cromwell.
†4. A cast or throw. Obs. rare—1.
1706George a Green in Thoms Prose Rom. (1858) II. 165 With such a tumbling quait, as we call a back somerset.
5. attrib. and Comb., as quoit-cast, quoit-pitcher, quoit-player, quoit-playing, quoit-thrower, etc.; quoit-like adj.
1538Leland Itin. VI. 56 A Coyte or Stone Cast beneth the Kinges Bridge. 1818Keats Endym. i. 306 They might watch the quoit-pitchers, intent On either side. 1871Alabaster Wheel of Law 169 The quoit-like weapon (chakra) the emblem of power of India. 1887L. E. Upcott Introd. Gk. Sculpt. iv. 57 The most familiar of Myron's works is the Quoit-thrower. Ibid., The quoit-player, who is stooping forward in attitude to throw.
▪ II. quoit, v.|kɔɪt, kwɔɪt|
Forms: 5 coytyn, 6 coyte, quayt-, 7 coit, quait, 7– quoit.
[f. the n.]
1. intr. To play at quoits. rare.
c1440Promp. Parv. 86/1 Coytyn, petriludo. 1530Palsgr. 488/2 Let us leave all boyes games, and go coyte a whyle. 1570Levins Manip. 216/18 To coyte, discum mittere. 1684Dryden Ovid's Met. i. 599 To Quoit, to Run, and Steeds and Chariots drive. 1871L. W. M. Lockhart Fair to See II. xi. 15 The quoiters quoited.
2. trans. To throw like a quoit. Also with advbs. as away, down, off, out.
1597Shakes. 2 Hen. IV, ii. iv. 206 Quoit him downe..like a shoue-groat shilling. 1630J. Taylor (Water P.) Brave Sea-fight Wks. iii. 39/2 So neere, as a man might quoit a Bisket Cake into her. 1660Shirley Andromana i. v. 47 Tis more impossible for me to leave thee, Then for this carkase to quait away its grave-stone. 1681Cotton Poet. Wks. (1765) 326 If you coit a Stone. 1791Cowper Iliad xxiii. 1042 Leonteus..quoited it next. 1822Lamb Elia Ser. i. Praise Chimneysweepers, One unfortunate wight..was quoited out of the presence with universal indignation. 1870Thornbury Tour Eng. I. iv. 77 It was just beyond..where Falstaff was quoited into the Thames. |