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He was mounted on an enormous white horse that stood as rapt as its master, and he carried in his right hand, with its butt resting on the stirrup, a high, smooth jousting lance, which stood up among the tree stumps, higher and higher, till it was outlined against the velvet sky.†
Book 1

jousting = competing in a contest to knock each other off horses with blunted lances OR competing in any kind of contest
He clutched his jousting lance in his right hand, and galloped off in the direction of the noise.†
Book 1
The girths stood the test and he was in the saddle somehow, with his jousting lance between his legs, and then he was galloping round and round the tree, in the opposite direction to the one in which the brachet had wound herself up.†
Book 1
When two knights jousted they held their lances in their right hands, but they directed their horses at one another so that each man had his opponent on his near side.†
Book 1

jousted = competed in a contest to knock each other off horses with blunted lances OR competed in any kind of contest
This was the humblest or least skilful blow in jousting.†
Book 1

jousting = competing in a contest to knock each other off horses with blunted lances OR competing in any kind of contest
A good jouster, like Lancelot or Tristram, always used the blow of the point, because, although it was liable to miss in unskilful hands, it made contact sooner.†
Book 1

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
But it would have been impossible to make a spear one hundred yards long and, if made, impossible to carry it The jouster had to find out the greatest length which he could manage with the greatest speed, and he had to stick to that Sir Lancelot, who came some time after this part of the story, had several sizes of spears and would call for his Great Spear or his Lesser Spear as occasion demanded.†
Book 1
Just outside Sir Ector's castle there was a jousting field for tournaments, although there had been no tournaments in it since Kay was born.†
Book 1

jousting = competing in a contest to knock each other off horses with blunted lances OR competing in any kind of contest
And I should have hoved at a well or a ford or something and made all true knights that came that way to joust with me for the honour of their ladies, and I should have spared them all after I had given them a great fall.†
Book 1
And I should live out of doors all the year round in a pavilion, and never do anything but joust and go on quests and bear away the prize at tournaments, and I should not ever tell anybody my name.†
Book 1
Sir Grummore Grummursum is on the way to challenge you to a joust.
Book 1 *

joust = a contest in which knights attempt to knock each other off horses with blunted lances
Sir What-you-may-call-it coming here to challenge me to a joust?†
Book 1
Sir Grummore looked at Merlyn—magicians were considered rather middle-class by the true jousting set in those days—and said distantly, "Ah, a magician.†
Book 1

jousting = competing in a contest to knock each other off horses with blunted lances OR competing in any kind of contest
Suppose we'd better have a joust, eh, what?†
Book 1
Then you must stay and joust with me, false knight.†
Book 1
Then thou shalt stay and joust with me, false knight.†
Book 1
You never know what will happen in a joust like this.†
Book 1
"Oh, dear!" exclaimed the Wart, feeling ashamed that his blood-thirstiness had been responsible for making these two knights joust before him.†
Book 1
went the armour, like a motor omnibus in collision with a smithy, and the jousters were sitting side by side on the green sward, while their horses cantered off in opposite directions.†
Book 1
"You see," explained King Pellinore blushing, as he sat down with everybody whacking him on the back, "old Grummore invited me home, what, after we had been having a pleasant joust together, and since then I've been letting my beastly Beast go and hang itself on the wall, what?"†
Book 1
Even if I have had the best of it for some mysterious reason, up to the present time—in our education—now I must pay for my past pleasures and for seeing all those delightful dragons, witches, fishes, cameleopards, pismires, wild geese and such like, by being a second-rate squire and holding Kay's extra spears for him, while he hoves by some well or other and jousts with all comers.†
Book 1
As you were that day when we went to watch King Pellinore's joust?†
Book 1
Yes, and you will carry my shield and spears for the jousts, and I shall win the palm of everybody and be a great knight!†
Book 1
On the first day of the tournament, Sir Kay managed to get them on the way to the lists at least an hour before the jousts could possibly begin.†
Book 1
Can't joust without a sword," said Sir Grummore.†
Book 1
Although nine tenths of the story seems to be about knights jousting and quests for the holy grail and things of that sort, the narrative is a whole, and it deals with the reasons why the young man came to grief at the end.†
Book 2

jousting = competing in a contest to knock each other off horses with blunted lances OR competing in any kind of contest
But you have to remember that people can't be good at cricket unless they teach themselves to be so, and that jousting was an art, just as cricket is.†
Book 3
Lancelot had never ridden a serious joust before—and, although he had charged at hundreds of quintains and thousands of rings, he had never taken his life in his hands in earnest.†
Book 3
But the trouble is that he has got so valiant since he married the Queen's daughter of Flanders that he has taken to jousting in earnest, and quite often wins.†
Book 3

jousting = competing in a contest to knock each other off horses with blunted lances OR competing in any kind of contest
At the present period of his life he had only fought one joust with Arthur himself, and the accepted captain of the knights was Gawaine.†
Book 3
A real tournament was distinct from a joust.†
Book 3
In a joust the knights tilted or fenced with each other singly, for a prize.†
Book 3
These mass battles were considered to be important—for instance, once you had paid your green fee for the tournament, you were admitted on the same ticket to fight in the jousts—but if you had only paid the jousting fee, you were not allowed to fight in the tourney.†
Book 3
These mass battles were considered to be important—for instance, once you had paid your green fee for the tournament, you were admitted on the same ticket to fight in the jousts—but if you had only paid the jousting fee, you were not allowed to fight in the tourney.†
Book 3

jousting = competing in a contest to knock each other off horses with blunted lances OR competing in any kind of contest
As it turned out, Turquine did sit better when it came to the tilt, so that this particular criticism came to nothing—but it throws a sidelight on jousting and may have been worth mentioning.†
Book 3
They jousted with him, and Galahad gave them both a fall.†
Book 3

jousted = competed in a contest to knock each other off horses with blunted lances OR competed in any kind of contest
He had been killed by a black knight at a ford—he had jousted with his own son, who had broken his neck—he had gone mad again, after being beaten by his son, and was riding overthwart and endlong—his armour had been stolen by a mysterious knight, and he had been eaten by a beast—he had fought against two hundred and fifty knights, been taken captive, and hanged like a dog.†
Book 3
I jousted with him and retrieved the armour.†
Book 3
I rode to the water of Mortoise, where a black knight came to joust with me.†
Book 3
For an ordinary joust there would have been a barrier: but in this case the fight was to be a outrance, which meant that it might end with swords on foot, and so the barrier was left out.†
Book 3
"Why should I not call him a traitor," she shouted, "when he bare the red sleeve upon his head at Winchester, at the great jousts?"†
Book 3
The true tension at court— which was apparent to everybody except Lancelot, who was too innocent to be conscious of such things—began to show itself clearly at the Westminster jousts.†
Book 3
I may be a weak knight at jousting, but I have the courage to stand for my family and rights.†
Book 4

jousting = competing in a contest to knock each other off horses with blunted lances OR competing in any kind of contest
Now they were filling with furniture made by the joiner, instead of the carpenter; now their walls rippled doorless with the flexible gaieties of Arras, tapestries like that of the Jousts of St. Denis which, although covering more than four hundred square yards, had been woven in less than three years, such was the ardour of its creation.†
Book 4
He loathed Tristram because of the thrashing he got from him on the way to Joyous Gard, and he helped to murder Lamorak because the boy had beaten him at the Priory Jousts, and—how many times have you upset him?†
Book 4
She remembered it as a bridge of great personality, what with the houses and the heads of rebels on spikes and the place where Sir David had fought a full-dress joust with the Lord Welles.†
Book 4

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(1) (joust)
a contest in which knights attempt to knock each other off horses with blunted lances

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any kind of contest
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