手上那塊扁平的擲物
這一家最貼近核心：實際被握住、被丟出去的那個東西。差別只在丟出去要做什麼——套柱子，還是比遠。
noun · C1
One of the flat, heavy rings or discs that you throw in the game of quoits. It can be made of metal, stone, rubber or rope.
擲環（用來丟的那個圈或圓盤）
核心畫面
You can think of a quoit as one flat, weighty thing that fits in the hand: a ring or disc of stone, metal, rubber or rope, heavier than it looks, made to be swung and let go. Where that flat thing lands decides everything else. Thrown at a post, it becomes a game. Thrown for distance, it becomes a contest. Left in a field, too big to lift and resting on other stones, it becomes an ancient monument.
quoit 的核心畫面可以想成一塊扁平、有分量的東西：一手握得住，比看起來重，適合甩開手臂丟出去。它可能是金屬圈、石…更多收起
quoit 的核心畫面可以想成一塊扁平、有分量的東西：一手握得住，比看起來重，適合甩開手臂丟出去。它可能是金屬圈、石頭圓盤，也可能是橡膠或繩子做的圈。接下來，這塊扁東西落在哪裡，就決定了字的意思。往柱子丟，就成了一種遊戲。往遠處丟，就成了一場比誰遠的競技。如果那塊扁石大到抬不動，被架在別的石頭上留在原地，它就成了古代的巨石遺跡。From the word’s history
The oldest recorded meaning is the plain one: Middle English coyte meant a flat stone. It came through Old French coite from Latin culcita, the same Latin word that gives English quilt. So the flat, weighty thing in the hand is not a metaphor here; it is where the word starts.
這個字最早記錄下來的意思，就是最樸素的那個：中古英文的 coyte，指「一塊扁平的石頭」。再往前是古法文 coite、拉丁文 culcita，而 quilt 也是從同一個拉丁字來的。所以「扁平、有分量」這個畫面不是後人想出來的比喻，它就是這個字的起點。
Wiktionary extract supplied in packet (source_ref kaikki:3f6f69a190036ae4:1313772583:6210): From Middle English coyte (flat stone), from Old French coite, from Latin culcita. Doublet of quilt.
Three branches
用這些圈玩的遊戲，以及「丟」這個動作
當那塊扁東西被一再丟向同一根柱子，活動本身就有了名字；名字用久了，連「丟」這個動作也借用了同一個字。
noun · C1
A game in which players stand back from a small post fixed in the ground and throw rings at it, trying to drop the rings over the post.
擲環遊戲
留在原地、抬不動的大扁石
同樣是一塊扁平的石頭，只是大到沒有人丟得動。它幾千年前被架在直立的石頭上，就一直留在那裡。核心畫面沒變，變的是尺寸，還有它不再飛出去、而是停住。
noun · C2
An ancient monument built from large stones. One source describes it as a small circle of upright stones; others use the word for a group of upright stones with one big flat stone laid across the top, or for that flat top stone by itself.
巨石遺跡（石桌墳）