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Joust   /dʒaʊst/   Listen
noun
Joust  n.  
1.
A tilting match; a mock combat on horseback between two knights in the lists or inclosed field. (Written also just) "Gorgeous knights at joust and tournament."
2.
Hence: Any competition involving one-to-one struggle with an opponent.


verb
Joust  v. i.  
1.
To engage in mock combat on horseback, as two knights in the lists; to tilt. (Written also just) "For the whole army to joust and tourney."
2.
Hence: To engage in a competition involving one-to-one struggle with an opponent.





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"Joust" Quotes from Famous Books



... since ye called you a king, You must prove a worthy thing That falls into the weir. You must joust in tournament, But sit you fast, else you'll be shent,[286] Else ...
— Everyman and Other Old Religious Plays, with an Introduction • Anonymous
... service to the ladies had now reached the point where he picked out a lady to serve loyally. His endeavor was to please her in all things, in order that he might be known as her knight, and wear her glove or scarf as a badge or favor when he entered the lists of a joust or tournament. ...
— The Junior Classics, V4 • Willam Patten (Editor)
... said Edward, "are we to have a joust? Dost look for phantom Saracens out of yonder fountain, such as my Dona tells me rise out of the fair wells in Castille, wring their hands and ...
— The Prince and the Page • Charlotte M. Yonge
... away, the host pressed the English lord to bide long as a guest, promising rest for horse, and refreshment and pleasure for man, with many a joust, or feat at arms, for those who wished to learn ...
— The Prose Marmion - A Tale of the Scottish Border • Sara D. Jenkins
... and in a dream I smote resistless; foemen in my path Fell unregarded, like the wayside flowers Clipped by the truant's staff in daisied lanes. For over me burned lustrous the dear eyes Of my beloved; I strove as at a joust To gain at end the guerdon of her smile. And ever, as in the dense melee I dashed, Her name burst from my lips, as lightning breaks Out of the plunging wrack of ...
— Pike County Ballads and Other Poems • John Hay


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