quoits

/ kɔɪts /

plural noun

usually functioning as singular a game in which quoits are tossed at a stake in the ground in attempts to encircle it

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Broil it carefully and rare, then go and toss quoits with Hercules.

Charley jingled a pocketful of pennies—Speckport pennies at that—as large as quoits.

But the shy look and the blush were exceedingly well got up, and Charley dropped the quoits with a delighted face.

Quoits hung up on several large nails driven into a wall, and there was a covered skittle alley.

Nathless, I love words: they are the quoits, the bows, the staves that furnish the gymnasium of the mind.

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