coit

See also: Coit and coït

English

Etymology 1

See quoit.

Noun

coit (plural coits)

  1. Obsolete form of quoit.
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Verb

coit (third-person singular simple present coits, present participle coiting, simple past and past participle coited)

  1. (obsolete, transitive) To throw.
    to coit a stone

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for coit in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)

Etymology 2

Back-formation from coitus.

Noun

coit

  1. Synonym of coition

Verb

coit (third-person singular simple present coits, present participle coiting, simple past and past participle coited)

  1. (rare) to copulate; to mate

Anagrams

Latin

Verb

coit

  1. third-person singular present active indicative of coeō
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