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  • You shall prove your worth by facing me in a joust!  (source)
    joust = a contest in which knights attempt to knock each other off horses with blunted lances
  • Yet he acquitted himself well, unhorsing Horas Redwyne in his first joust and one of the Freys in his second.  (source)
  • He rides out, then turns, running hard for the dead like a knight in a joust.  (source)
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  • "They don't joust," Marion grumbled,  (source)
    joust = a contest in which knights attempt to knock each other off horses with blunted lances
  • Let there be parades through every city in the land and a gala carnival of three days' duration, consisting of jousts, games, feasts, and follies.†  (source)
  • ...a great tournament was held in Atticus's time in which the gentlemen of the county jousted for the honor of carrying their ladies into Maycomb for a great banquet.  (source)
    jousted = competed in a contest to knock each other off horses with blunted lances
  • I charged the goat-killer with my twenty-foot-long jousting light fixture.†  (source)
    jousting = competing in a contest to knock each other off horses with blunted lances  OR  competing in any kind of contest
  • You'll need to look long and hard to find a better jouster than Loras Tyrell.†  (source)
    jouster = someone who competes in a contest to knock each other off horses with blunted lances; or someone who competes in any kind of contest
  • Hiro breaks out of his orbit and heads straight for him, and they come together like a couple of medieval jousters.†  (source)
  • Inferno: Canto XXII I have erewhile seen horsemen moving camp, Begin the storming, and their muster make, And sometimes starting off for their escape; Vaunt-couriers have I seen upon your land, O Aretines, and foragers go forth, Tournaments stricken, and the joustings run, Sometimes with trumpets and sometimes with bells, With kettle-drums, and signals of the castles, And with our own, and with outlandish things, But never yet with bagpipe so uncouth Did I see horsemen move, nor infantry, Nor ship by any sign of land or star.†  (source)
  • he jousteth mightily.†  (source)
    jousteth = competes in a contest to knock each other off horses with blunted lances  OR  competes in any kind of contest
    standard suffix: Today, the suffix "-eth" is replaced by "-s", so that where they said "She jousteth" in older English, today we say "She jousts."
  • Sir Grummore Grummursum is on the way to challenge you to a joust.  (source)
    joust = a contest in which knights attempt to knock each other off horses with blunted lances
  • Knights farther back than Arthur carried these into jousts and battles.†  (source)
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