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The common pronunciation of quoits in the Slate Belt region is (qwaits). Players take turns throwing a quoit at the pin. The quoit nearest the pin gets one point. If one player has two quoits nearer the pin than either of his opponent's quoits, he gets two points. A quoit that encircles the pin (called a ringer) gets three points.
The Slate Belt is a geographic region in Northampton County, ... Slate-board quoits, which originating with Slate Belt miners in the 1930s, ...
Quoit may refer to: . Quoit, a single-chambered megalithic tomb, also called a Dolmen; Quoit (brooch), a pre-medieval type of brooch A ring used in the game of quoits; Chakram, a weapon sometimes called a war-quoit
QUOITS (0. Fr. coiter, quoiter, to incite), a pastime resembling the ancient discus-throwing which formed one of the five games of the Greek pentathlon (see Discus), the two main differences between the ancient and modern sports being that the quoit is ring-shaped (one surface being rounded, the other - the back - being flat) and is lighter than the discus, and its throwing is a test rather of ...
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Most scholars now agree that the style developed mainly from provincial late Roman metalwork styles, apparently drawing elements from both the relatively low-status jewellery found in military graves in northern Gaul and England such as belt buckles and fittings, and also late-Roman luxury work such as the style in one bracelet in the very late Roman Hoxne Hoard. [3]