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ˈquoiting, vbl. n.
Forms: 5–7 coyt-, 6 koyt-, quait-, quayt-, 7 coit, 7– quoit-.
[f. as prec. + -ing1.]
a. The action or game of playing at quoits. Also, = curling vbl. n.1 2.
1467Nottingham Rec. II. 264 Luserunt ad quendam ludum illicitum et prohibitum vocatum ‘le coytyng’. 1532More Confut. Tindale Wks. 574/2 Suche prety playes..as chyldren be woont to playe, as cheristone, mary bone,..or quayting. 1541Act 33 Hen. VIII, c. 9 §11 Any common house, aley or place of boulynge, coytynge [etc.]. 1563B. Googe Eglogs vii. (Arb.) 58 Suche thynges, wherin we Shepeheardes haue delyght, As in Quaiting. a1619M. Fotherby Atheom. ii. i. §8 (1622) 188 Running, Wrestling, Leaping, Coyting. 1799E. Du Bois Piece Family Biog. I. 16 Wrestling, running, quoiting,..and every description of rural sport. 1811J. Ramsay Acct. Game Curling 20 From one end of Scotland to the other, it was always named kuting, to curl, meaning nothing more than to slide upon the ice. In some parts of Ayrshire..it is pronounced coiting. 1836Lytton Athens (1837) I. 179 At first only the footrace was exhibited, afterwards were added wrestling, leaping, quoiting. 1884J. Taylor Curling 74 He had seen Bryan o' the Sun Inn and the deil quitin' (curling) on the Auld Water.
Comb.1530Palsgr. 488/2, I Coyte. I play with a coyting stone. 1827[see quoit n. 1 c]. 1853W. Watson Poems 71 The lee-side was cheer'd by the quoitin'-stane roar. 1897Crockett Lads' Love xviii. 189 He..fairly dragged me into the quoiting-ground. Ibid. 195 The matter of the quoiting-match. 1969R. Welsh Beginner's Guide Curling ii. 15 Kuting stones, channel stanes or loofies are the oldest curling implements known to us.
†b. A method of cheating at dice. Obs. rare—1.
1545R. Ascham Toxoph. i. (Arb.) 54 If they be true dise, what shyfte wil they make to set ye one of them with slyding, with cogging,..with coytinge as they call it. |