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quoitn. Origin: Probably a borrowing from French. Etymon: French coite. Etymology: Probably < Anglo-Norman coite, coyte discus (13th cent. in a glossary, translating classical Latin discus discus n.), sport or game of throwing a flattened ring of iron or rope (late 14th cent. or earlier), further origin uncertain: probably a transferred use of Anglo-Norman cuite urging or spurring (of horses) (late 12th cent. in the phrase a cuite d'espurun , lit. ‘with urging by the spurs’; compare Old French cuite , cute , Old French, Middle French coite prick (of a spur), urging or spurring (of horses), haste) < coiter , coitier , cuitier , cuter to spur, to incite, urge on (late 12th cent.) < an unattested post-classical Latin form *coctare , variant (with elision of medial syllable; compare post-classical Latin coctus (3rd cent.), variant of classical Latin coāctus , past participle of cōgere ) of classical Latin coāctāre to compel, frequentative formation < cōgere to drive together, compel (see cogent adj.).Corresponding verbal use is not recorded in Anglo-Norman, and both quoiting n. and quoit v. are therefore perhaps best regarded as being from the Middle English noun. On the form history compare discussion at Q n. Some of the U.S. regional γ. forms apparently show various phonetic substitutions and epenthetic consonants. With sense 3b compare Welsh coeten Arthur, literally ‘Arthur's quoit’, formerly used to denote prehistoric monuments (16th cent.); Welsh coeten, coetan, and coet discus, quoit (1547) are < English. society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > quoits > [noun] α. 1366 [implied in: (1907–14) I. 438 Qe les comunes..ne vsent..altres Jues qe home appelle Coitinges. (at quoiting n. 1)]. (Harl. 221) 86 Coyte, petreluda. 1477 VI. 188/1 No persone shuld use any unlawfull Pleys, as Dise, Coyte, Foteball. 1527 Galway Arch. in (1885) App. v. 402 Plainge at choyttes or stonis. 1551 R. Robinson tr. T. More sig. Di Lewde and vnlawfull games, as..tennyes, bolles, coytes. 1621 R. Burton ii. ii. iv. 342 Keelpins, tronkes, coits,..are the common recreations of country folkes. 1740 tr. A. Banier IV. 387 He would needs constrain Diana to play at the Coit with him. 1787 H. Wallis 70 (title of poem) Seeing men play at coits. 1819 J. Lingard III. xix. 140 (note) The forbidden games were coits, hand-ball, foot-ball, stick-ball, canibuca, and cock-fighting. 2006 (Nexis) 14 Aug. 10 Those who braved August winds, cloudy skies and downpours were treated to old-fashioned skittles games, a coconut shy and games of coits. 2. society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > quoits > [noun] > quoit α. c1425 Edward, Duke of York (Vesp. B.xii) (1904) 101 (MED) The sergeaunt shuld bidde þe beerners bryng forþ her houndes and stonde stille afore hem a smal cotes cast from þennes. c1449 R. Pecock (1860) 120 That men myȝten alloweabili..pleie..bi casting of coitis. c1470 W. Wey 17 (MED) Fro thens a caste of a coyte, and sum what las, Mary dwellyd and herd her masse. 1530 J. Palsgrave 206/2 Coyte to playe with, palet. Coyte of stone, bricoteav. 1591 J. Harington tr. L. Ariosto xiii. xxxiv. 98 This like a coight at them Orlando tost. 1603 P. Holland tr. Plutarch 395 We can no more handle the spade to dig the ground..cast the coit..or handle sword and buckler as we could have done in those daies. 1623 T. Gataker sig. A3 What is there in the casuall falling of the Dye, or dealing of the Cards, more than in the fall of a Coyte..to ensnare the Conscience? 1657 R. Ligon 28 There is no part of it so broad, but you may cast a Coyte over it. 1711 J. Addison No. 56. ¶4 Some of them were tossing the Figure of a Coit. 1807 G. Crabbe Parish Reg. ii, in 89 Tost the broad Coite, or took th' inspiring Ale. 1847 J. O. Halliwell II. at Collar To collar the mag, to throw a coit with such precision as to surround the plug. the world > space > distance > [noun] > limit of distance or reach > to which a thing may be thrown c1425A cotes caste [see sense 2aα. ]. 1478 W. Worcester 76 Distans per spacium vnius coytyscast. 1595 A. Copley vi. 173 Offring one day to runne for a wager with a familiar friend of his, and to giue him a quoytes-cast ods before him. a1604 M. Hanmer Chron. Ireland 10 in J. Ware (1633) The Welch Prophet could not see a quoits cast from him. 1644 J. Milton 22 Every acute reader..will be ready..to ding the book a coits distance from him. 1691 J. Dunton I. 58 This zame Woman having never avore bin above a stones julk, or a Quoits cast out of her Parish bounds, hapned to have a young Vellow come a Zutering to her, a matter o' zum twenty mile off. 1791 W. Cowper tr. Homer Iliad in I. xxiii. 648 Menelaus..fell A full quoit's cast behind. 1870 W. C. Bryant tr. Homer II. xxiii. 344 He fell as far behind As a quoit's cast. 1927 22 330 The distances to which various kinds of missiles could be thrown served as standards of measure. 'A stone's throw' and 'a quoit's cast' must have been common. society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > winter sports > curling > [noun] > curling-stone 1809 J. Grahame 24 Two seeming equidistant, straws or twigs Decide as umpires 'tween contending coits. 1826 W. Hone (1827) II. 164 The stones used are called coits, or quoits, or coiting, or quoiting-stones. 1883 J. Kennedy (1899) 123 There mony a weel-skill'd curling skip Cam' wi' his quoits provided. 3. In extended use. the world > space > shape > curvature > roundness > [noun] > circularity > a circle > a disc > disc-shaped object a1614 P. Nichols (1626) 89 Thirteene barres of siluer, and some fewe quoits of gold. a1635 R. Corbet Iter Boreale in (1647) 4 No pompous weight Upon him, but a pebble, or a quayte. 1680 C. Blount tr. Philostratus ii. 178 It is a certain Quoit or Discus made of silver. 1898 J. S. Corbett vi. 194 Oxenham's party found ‘that the earth every way a mile distant had been digged and turned up’, and all but thirteen bars of silver and a few quoits of gold recovered. 1967 R. Silverberg (rev. ed.) ix. 396 They had arrived in Eldorado, which is to say Utopia. The children there amused themselves with quoits of gold studded with emeralds and rubies, which they discarded like ordinary playthings at the end of their game. society > communication > record > memorial or monument > [noun] > structure or erection > stone > dolmen or cromlech 1754 W. Borlase 113 We found a most curious orbicular flat stone, (such as in Cornwall are call'd Quoits from their figure which has pretty much of the Discus form) which was wantonly thrown down from the top of a monstrous rock. 1799 E. King I. p. xxiv Devil's Quoits, near Stanton Harcourt, in Oxfordshire. 1827 G. Higgins Pref. 49 Under this Quoit I caused to be sunk a pit. 1867 F. M. Müller (1870) III. xiii. 291 In Bosprennis Cross there was a very large coit or cromlech. 1887 S. Baring-Gould I. ii. 18 A rude granite slab..[which] had been the ‘quoit’ of a great prehistoric dolmen or cromlech. 1907 12 June 6/6 ‘Quoit’, by the way, signifies the roofing slab or cap stone, which, in this case, was delicately poised on a cairn of rock till the twentieth-century farmer came along. 1978 J. Lymington ii. 32 I found a book on mysterious and wonderful stones in Cornwall; the Cheesewring, Quoits and other puzzling phenomena. 1992 Mar. 90/1 Neolithic menhirs, quoits, burial cairns, and stone circles, and Iron Age village remains stand on moorland mounds covered in purple heather and prickly gorse. the world > life > the body > external parts of body > trunk > back > buttock(s) > [noun] 1941 S. J. Baker 58 Quoit, the buttocks. 1941 S. J. Baker 58 Go for one's quoits, to travel quickly, go for one's life. 1951 E. Lambert x. 165 See those jokers sitting on their quoits over there? 1952 J. Cleary i. 42 Going for the lick of his coit up the street. 1954 T. A. G. Hungerford xiv. 176 Gawd, he blew the tripes outa me for nothing at all, and then he kicks a Nip in the coit. 1968 S. Gore 107 Quoit, to go for one's, to exert all possible effort, or to run. 1972 J. Bailey x. 82 ‘I think he needs a good kick up the coit,’ says Cromwell. 2003 (Nexis) 1 Feb. 38 The little buggers are back to school, terrorising teachers with threats of million dollar lawsuits for a well overdue kick in the coit. the world > movement > impelling or driving > projecting through space or throwing > [noun] > distance to which anything may be thrown 1858 W. J. Thoms (ed. 2) II. 165 With such a tumbling quait, as we call a back somerset. Compounds General attributive, objective, and objective genitive. society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > quoits > [noun] > player a1552 J. Leland (1711) VI. 42 One principal Arme..goith..to the Kinges Streame A Coyte or Stone Cast beneth the Kinges Bridge. 1677 E. Coles A Quoit-caster, Discobolus. 1733 N. Bailey tr. Erasmus (ed. 2) 6 The Greeks had five Sorts of Exercises, Running, Quoit-playing, Leaping, Wrestling, and Handy-cuffs. 1768 T. Worlidge 42 Discobulus. A famous quoit player at the Olympic games. 1790 J. Freeth (ed. 6) 79 (title of song) The diversion of quoit playing. 1818 J. Keats i. 19 They might watch the quoit-pitchers, intent On either side. 1851 H. Mayhew Answ. to Corr. 2 Dec. In the Country the mark in Quoit playing is termed a ‘motte’. 1880 12 221 About 708 was introduced..the so-called Pentathlon, including jumping, running, quoit throwing, javelin-casting and wrestling. 1887 L. E. Upcott iv. 57 The most familiar of Myron's works is the Quoit-thrower. 1902 2 654 The distinction between quoit-pitching and discus-throwing..is, that in the former the final movement of lunging forward, to lend force to the arm and body action, is omitted. 1921 18 Oct. 10/5 There was a good turn-out of quoit players at the game played at the Willows. 1963 W. Umminger i. 23 New events were introduced, and the pentathlon or five-part contest came into being: running, leaping, javelin throwing, quoit throwing and wrestling. 2001 (Nexis) 21 Sept. Each team of MPs is allowed to play one Joker card, enabling them to double their points when skilled quoit-throwers like Roy Hattersley and Ted Heath are on that week's team. 1903 31 Aug. 5/3 There were three other games of unusual interest to quoits players. 1924 G. P. Bent xix. 267/1 I failed in the quoits finals... I ‘umpired’ in the absolute final quoits games. 1952 T. Armstrong viii. 277 The weed-overgrown, junk-bestrewn quoits-court of the Golden Lion. 1999 1 Sept. 4/7 Richard Watson..beat stiff opposition to take the quoits title at Barnard Castle Cricket Club's open day. 2002 T. Collins & W. Vamplew ii. 62 Cobbold's brewery in Ipswich and Vaux in Sunderland had sponsored local quoits leagues since the late 1950s. Derivatives 1855 P. H. Myers 238 With her own white hand, she pitched the large wheaten slices, quoit-like, around his plate. 1871 H. Alabaster 169 The quoit-like weapon (chakra) the emblem of power of India. 1986 (Nexis) 15 May Other multi-processor computers have been organised as rings, trees, meshes of quoit like toruses. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2008; most recently modified version published online June 2022). quoitv. Origin: Probably formed within English, by conversion. Etymon: quoit n. Etymology: Probably < quoit n. (see discussion at that entry). Compare earlier quoiter n., quoiting n. Now rare. society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > quoits > play at quoits [verb (intransitive)] ?a1475 (Winch.) (1908) 115 Coytyn, detriludio [a1500 King's Cambr. 56 petriludo]. 1530 J. Palsgrave 488/2 Let us leave all boyes games, and go coyte a whyle. 1570 P. Levens sig. Rivv/1 To Coyte, discum mittere. 1627 W. Hawkins iii. iv. 47 The gods may be said to Quoite when they cast into the lappe of fortune, the lots and faites of mortall men. 1693 J. Dryden tr. Ovid Metamorphoses i, in 38 To Quoit, to Run, and Steeds and Chariots drive. 1825 J. Jamieson Suppl. 258/2 Quyte, to play on the ice with curling-stanes. 1846 R. H. Horne 135 Some quoited; others form'd a ring To quaff the goblet, or to sing. 1871 L. W. M. Lockhart II. xi. 15 The quoiters quoited. 1884 J. Taylor 74 He had seen Bryan o' the Sun Inn and the deil quitin' (curling) on the Auld Water. the world > movement > impelling or driving > projecting through space or throwing > throw [verb (transitive)] > a missile or projectile > flat 1525 in W. J. Thoms (Camden Soc.) 11 Hacklewitt and another..in a madde humour..coyted him downe to the bottome of the stayres. 1600 W. Shakespeare ii. iv. 189 Quaite him downe..like a shoue-groat shilling. View more context for this quotation 1630 J. Taylor Brave Sea-fight in iii. 39/2 So neere, as a man might quoit a Bisket Cake into her. 1660 J. S. i. v. 47 Tis more impossible for me to leave thee, Then for this carkase to quait away its grave-stone. 1682 T. Shadwell iv. 46 In foolish play, I quoited a little Stone or two at him. 1791 W. Cowper tr. Homer Iliad in I. xxiii. 1042 Leonteus..quoited it next. 1797 J. White (ed. 2) 86 I'd submitted to be quoited into the river. a1800 W. Cowper tr. Homer Iliad xxiii, in (1835–7) 310 Epeüs seized the clod. He swung, he cast it... Leonteus..quoited it next. 1823 C. Lamb Praise of Chimney-sweepers in 258 One unfortunate wight..was quoited out of the presence with universal indignation. 1870 W. Thornbury I. iv. 77 It was just beyond..where Falstaff was quoited into the Thames. 1913 22 Feb. 28/2 Then she saw him..regain his feet like a cat a split instant before the tunnelman's heavy boots quoited home on the spot. 1923 9 Apr. 10/2 Hundreds of tarred and burning hoops were skillfully quoited around the necks of soldiers. 1977 M. Keen (rev. ed.) 220 A huge moorstone..was said to have been quoited by him from his bed on Blackstone Edge six miles away. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2008; most recently modified version published online March 2022). <  n.1366 v.?a1475 |
