See quoit on Wiktionary
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"links": [
[
"play",
"play#Verb"
],
[
"quoits",
"quoits"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(intransitive) To play quoits."
],
"tags": [
"intransitive"
]
},
{
"categories": [
"English terms with quotations",
"English transitive verbs"
],
"examples": [
{
"ref": "1791, Homer, “[The Iliad.] Book XXIII.”, in W[illiam] Cowper, transl., The Iliad and Odyssey of Homer, Translated into Blank Verse, […], volume I, London: […] J[oseph] Johnson, […], →OCLC, page 630, lines 1038–1041:",
"text": "Each took / His ſtation, and Epeüs ſeized the clod. / He ſwung, he caſt it, and the Greecians laugh'd. / Leonteus, branch of Mars, quoited it next.",
"type": "quote"
}
],
"glosses": [
"To throw like a quoit."
],
"links": [
[
"throw",
"throw#Verb"
],
[
"quoit",
"quoit#Noun"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(transitive) To throw like a quoit."
],
"synonyms": [
{
"word": "fling"
},
{
"word": "toss"
},
{
"word": "throw"
}
],
"tags": [
"transitive"
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/kɔɪt/",
"tags": [
"UK"
]
},
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},
{
"ipa": "/kɔɪt/",
"tags": [
"US"
]
},
{
"ipa": "/kwɔɪt/",
"tags": [
"US"
]
},
{
"ipa": "/kweɪt/",
"tags": [
"dialectal",
"obsolete"
]
},
{
"rhymes": "-ɔɪt"
}
],
"wikipedia": [
"quoit"
],
"word": "quoit"
}
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