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___ Tower (Telegraph Hill landmark)
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coit
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Word definitions in Wikipedia
Coit may refer to one of the following. Battle of Cat Coit Celidon , a battle in Arthurian legends Coit Albertson , American actor Coit Cleaners , cleaning company from California Coit D. Blacker , Special Assistant to the President Coit Tower , landmark ...
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Coit \Coit\, v. t. To throw, as a stone. [Obs.] See Quoit .
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"coition," early 15c., from Latin coitus "going together," also "coition," from coire "to go together" (see coitus ).
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
Etymology 1 n. (context obsolete English) A quoit. vb. (context obsolete English) To throw, as a stone. Etymology 2 vb. To have sexual intercourse; to mate.
Usage examples of coit.
The pond-head of his passion being now filled to the utmost limit of its capacity, and beginning to overflow in the quivering of his lips and the flashing of his eyes, he pulled up all the flash-boards at once, and gave loose to the full torrent of his indignation, by seizing, like furious Ajax, not a messy stone more than two modern men could raise, but a vast dish of beef more than fifty ancient yeomen could eat, and whirled it like a coit, in terrorem, over the head of the friar, to the extremity of the apartment, Where it on oaken floor did settle, With mighty din of ponderous metal.
On top of Telegraph Hill, the World War III Memorial, built on the remains of the Coit Tower after the latter was destroyed during that conflict.