Noun: quoit
| Singular | quoit |
| Plural | quoits |
Sample Sentences
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He heard then a warm heavy sigh, softer, as she turned over and the loose brass quoits of the bedstead jingled. Must get those settled really. [1922 February, James Joyce, “[Episode 4: Calypso]”, in Ulysses, Paris: Shakespeare and Company, […], →OCLC, part II [Odyssey], page 54:]
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This quoit was brought from a karn about a furlong distance, near which is another cromlech, not so large. [1817, Charles Sandoe Gilbert, A Historical Survey of the County of Cornwall, page 175:]
Nouns inflected like quoit
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
From Middle English coyte (“flat stone”), from Old French coite, from Latin culcita. Doublet of quilt. See: Middle English Nouns '
coyte', Latin Nouns '
culcita'.