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JOUST

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 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

A combat between two mounted knights tilting against each other with blunted lances

Synonyms:

joust; tilt

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural events

Hypernyms ("joust" is a kind of...):

battle; struggle (an energetic attempt to achieve something)

Holonyms ("joust" is a part of...):

tournament (a series of jousts between knights contesting for a prize)

Derivation:

joust (joust against somebody in a tournament by fighting on horseback)

 II. (verb) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Joust against somebody in a tournament by fighting on horseback

Classified under:

Verbs of fighting, athletic activities

Hypernyms (to "joust" is one way to...):

contend; fight; struggle (be engaged in a fight; carry on a fight)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "joust"):

tilt (charge with a tilt)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s
Somebody ----s PP

Derivation:

joust (a combat between two mounted knights tilting against each other with blunted lances)

Credits

 Context examples: 

I had a turn with them upon the sea when they came over to Winchelsea and the good queen with her ladies sat upon the cliffs looking down at us, as if it had been joust or tourney.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

“By Thomas of Kent! we shall make a camp-marshal of thee, and thou shalt draw up rules for our jousting. But, John, who is it that you would uphold in this knightly and pleasing fashion?”

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

My master has heard that there is jousting here, and prospect of honorable advancement, so he has come to ask that some English cavalier will vouchsafe for the love of his lady to run a course with sharpened lances with him, or to meet him with sword, mace, battle-axe, or dagger.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)