How To Use Quoit In A Sentence
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To think some people believe a cruise is all dinner jackets and deck quoits!
The Sun
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The surface of a sphere is a good example, as is a torus (the mathematical name for the shape of the surface of a quoit, or a ring-shaped doughnut).
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This was why: Before Sabol left, the two played a backyard game called quoit, similar to horseshoes.
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Hundreds of tarred and burning hoops were skilfully quoited around the necks of the soldiers, who struggled in vain to extricate themselves from these fiery ruffs, while as fast as any of the invaders planted foot upon the breach, they were confronted face to face with sword and dagger by the burghers, who hurled them headlong into the moat below.
A Wanderer in Holland
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Deck Quoits played with quoits made from rope has been a popular pastime on cruise ships for decades.
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The most vicious battles he's likely to have seen in his 52 years will have been on the quoits deck.
Times, Sunday Times
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Organisers are also looking for community organisations to run antiquated fair games such a quoits and bob-the-apple to add to the atmosphere of the day.
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The surface of a sphere is a good example, as is a torus (the mathematical name for the shape of the surface of a quoit, or a ring-shaped doughnut).
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Quoits and shuffleboard, darts and table tennis are enjoyed by passengers of all ages.
Times, Sunday Times
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A dolmen (also known as cromlech (Welsh), anta, Hünengrab, Hunebed, Goindol, quoit, and portal dolmen) is a type of single-chamber megalithic tomb, usually consisting of three or more upright stones supporting a large flat horizontal capstone (table).
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If not, you should: (S5787) introduced by Senator Liz Krueger (D-Manhattan) (A8632A) by Joseph Morelle (D - Irondequoit).
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Zachary Costello of Irondequoit, working for Ted Hosmer Enterprises Inc. of Henrietta, was clearing snow on a small tractor at a downtown Xerox building.
Huge snowstorm pounding Northeast
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In the old days, games could go on until after midnight - what with the drinking and that - and we had to light matches to show players where to land the quoit.
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Take, for example, Senate District 56: Two masses, encompassing Parma, Greece and parts of Irondequoit to the left and parts of Rochester and Brighton on the right, are connected by a teeny strip of land that could possibly be made of two or three streets.
Ashley Calloway: Redistricting Rorschach
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To think some people believe a cruise is all dinner jackets and deck quoits!
The Sun
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Quoits and shuffleboard, darts and table tennis are enjoyed by passengers of all ages.
Times, Sunday Times
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Irondequoit, and we, are going to get a sale there.
Northern Nut Growers Association Report of the Proceedings at the 44th Annual Meeting Rochester, N.Y. August 31 and September 1, 1953
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The quoit formerly ufed by the Gre - cians was made of (tones, brafsor iron, which they threw by the help of a thong, put through a hole in the middle of it, but in a manner entirely different from that in which they threw the dart: then 'the hands were lifted, up and extended, whereas the difcus was hurled in the manner* of a bowl.
Sporting Magazine
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You're only supposed to play quoits on a cruise
Times, Sunday Times
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Pitching quoits is common at family reunions and picnics.
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Is this a single hole version of the above game or is it a variation of quoits with a hole instead of a stake?
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For the ultimate playhouse, fix a game of quoits to the walls and challenge friends.
The Sun
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Lopez dislocated a shoulder when his mount, Quoit Alarming, bucked and unseated him during the first race at Monmouth Park on September 11.
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Arthur's Quoit near Swansea, the dolmen of Pentre Ifan in Pembrokeshire, and that of Plas Newydd on the Menai Strait: in Anglesey they are quite common.
Rough Stone Monuments and Their Builders
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In which case, how about a game of quoits?
Times, Sunday Times
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The difficulty of maintaining the clay squares and the muddiness that can occur on a wet day makes genuine traditional quoits a rare sport.
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With one quoit bead or pendant from Varley Halls in Sussex, analysed by the British Museum, a combination of glazing techniques was used.
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They threw pails of boiling water on the besiegers, they hurled firebrands in their faces; they quoited blazing pitch-hoops with, unerring dexterity about their necks.
The Rise of the Dutch Republic — Complete (1555-84)
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It uses rubber rings and to make up for their lack of shape, one side is coloured black, the other white and any quoit which falls black side up, doesn't score.
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Here are scenes of deck games and dancing, cabin staff and quoits.
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In the Rochester area — ZIP codes starting with "146," which includes Brighton, Chili, Gates, Greece and Irondequoit — the number of mailboxes dropped from 635 in 2001 to 598 this year, said Donna Hennessey, customer relations coordinator for Rochester branches of the postal service.
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Its activities were designed to provide healthy recreation for young people, and included competitions in running, jumping, quoits, cricket and football.
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The talon emerged, clutching ready for action a six-pound iron quoit.
THE PRINCESS
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A cheese eater from the moment I was born, I have always turned my nose up at the footling quoits and mini-pyramids of cream the French call cheese.
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In which case, how about a game of quoits?
Times, Sunday Times
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His one hand slipped into his pocket and clutched the quoit.
THE PRINCESS
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Thought cruises were about permatanned ladies and gentlemen of a certain age playing deck quoits and waiting their turn to dine at the captain's table?
Times, Sunday Times
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By this you may see the boldnesse of those buzards, that think themselves hectors when they see but their shadowes, & tremble when they see a Iroquoit.
Voyages of Peter Esprit Radisson
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It uses rubber rings and to make up for their lack of shape, one side is coloured black, the other white and any quoit which falls black side up, doesn't score.
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The Discus was a kind of quoit of a round form, made sometimes of wood, but more frequently of stone, lead, or other metal; as iron or brass.
The Ancient History of the Egyptians, Carthaginians, Assyrians, Babylonians, Medes and Persians, Macedonians and Grecians (Vol. 1 of 6)
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Au reste il connoissoit très-bien ces contrées; et indépendamment de ses vingt-quatre ans de séjour dans la Palestine, il avoit parcouru encore l'Arménie, la Perse, l'empire Grec, etc. Selon lui, ce qui, dans les croisades précédentes, avoit fait échouer les rois de France et d'Angleterre, c'est que mal adroitement on attaquoit à la fois et les Turcs et le soudan d'Egypte.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation — Volume 10 Asia, Part III
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[Footnote: "Tous ces Officiers s'étoient habillés le plus proprement qu'ils pûrent, les galons d'or et d'argent, les rubans, les plumets, la poudre, et la frisure, rien ne manquoit," etc.
Count Frontenac and New France under Louis XIV
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A whole day of sponsored games, including skipping, soccer skills, rugby touch-downs and quoit balancing, helped to raise £520.
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The human thirst for competition takes many quixotic forms - baccarat, sumo, the caber toss, quoits.
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Activities include making sandships, pirate quoits and walking the plank for young rogues.
Times, Sunday Times
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Simultaneously Slim reached for his quoit, and Whiskers and Fatty for their rocks.
THE PRINCESS
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Bad flute-players twist and twirl, if they have to represent ‘the quoit-throw,’ or hustle the coryphaeus when they perform the
Poetics
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Organisers of fêtes, horse fairs and similar public functions sometimes set up temporary quoits pitches in this way for decades and such games are often referred to as Sward Quoits.
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Olympic truce; and among these is Aristotle the philosopher, who adduces as a proof of it the quoit which is at Olympia, on which the name of
Plutarch's Lives, Volume I
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But Jason bethought him of the counsels of Medea full of craft, and seized from the plain a huge round boulder, a terrible quoit of Ares
The Argonautica
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And the Colchians gave a loud cry, like the roar of the sea when it beats upon sharp crags; and speechless amazement seized Aeetes at the rush of the sturdy quoit.
The Argonautica
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Massaquoit's special knowledge of Indian culture and local woodcraft are crucial to solving the three mysteries.
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Today has been a long day in coming," said Supervisor Mary Ellen Heyman, who presented the agreement with East Irondequoit Central School District Superintendent Susan Allen and district business manager John Abbott during a morning news conference at the school district's offices, 600 Pardee Road.
Webster Blog
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The one hand of Bruce Cadogan Cavendish flashed pocketward and flashed back with the quoit balanced ripe for business.
THE PRINCESS
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Bruce Cadogan Cavendish pulled forth his iron quoit and seemed to debate whether or not he should brain the other.
THE PRINCESS
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If you looked at our itinerary you'd think we were bouncing from quoit to holy well to stone circle and you wouldn't be far wrong.
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Activities include making sandships, pirate quoits and walking the plank for young rogues.
Times, Sunday Times
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When playing quoits, I won this rabbit toy.
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With one hand on the nape of his neck and the other on the seat of his trousers, Solomon lifted his enemy above his head and quoited him over the tent top.
In the Days of Poor Richard
