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See quant. - quookt, quookt, quooket. Obsolete preterits and past participles of qual -b IMG:content-1521.png:[blocks in formation] Formerly in the country the rustics, not having the round perforated quoits to play with, used horse-shoes, and in many places the quoit itself, to this day, is called a shoe. Strutt , Sports and Pastimes, p. 142. 2. pl. The game played with such rings. Two pins, called hobs, are driven part of their length into the ground some distance apart; and the players, who are divided into two sides, stand beside one hob, and in regular succe ion throw their quoits (of which each player has two) as near the other hob as they can. which has the quoit nearest the hob counts a point toward game, or, if the quoit is thrown so as to surround the hob, it counts two. The game only slightly resembles the ancient exercise of throwing the discus, which has, however, been often translated by this English word. IMG:content-1522.png:[blocks in formation]