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# quoit

«quoit» in Mova's school dictionary: **a flat ring of rope, metal or rubber that is thrown so…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

noun (quoits in the plural)

### meaning for a pupil

1) A quoit is a flat ring of rope, metal or rubber that is thrown so that it lands over a peg. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/Q/quoit/#m1)

2) Quoits is the game of throwing these rings at a peg. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/Q/quoit/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

in sports and old games, such as the contests at a king's games where prizes were won

### examples

- The boys played quoits on the lawn. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/Q/quoit/#x1)
- He threw the quoit and it landed on the peg. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/Q/quoit/#x2)
- At the games, the best quoit-throwers won prizes. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/Q/quoit/#x3)

### note

nothing for maths

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «quoit» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/Q/quoit/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.