All 15 Uses
joust
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A Game of Thrones
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- I backed Ser Jaime in the jousting, along with half the court.†
p. 175.7 *jousting = competing in a contest to knock each other off horses with blunted lances OR competing in any kind of contest
- They say that knights will come from all over the realm to joust and feast in honor of your appointment as Hand of the King.†
p. 216.1
- Your warhorse, now, he may not be the best one for the joust.†
p. 217.1
- Yet he acquitted himself well, unhorsing Horas Redwyne in his first joust and one of the Freys in his second.
p. 295.1joust = a contest in which knights attempt to knock each other off horses with blunted lances
- The jousting went all day and into the dusk, the hooves of the great warhorses pounding down the lists until the field was a ragged wasteland of torn earth.†
p. 295.3jousting = competing in a contest to knock each other off horses with blunted lances OR competing in any kind of contest
- The most terrifying moment of the day came during Ser Gregor's second joust, when his lance rode up and struck a young knight from the Vale under the gorget with such force that it drove through his throat, killing him instantly.†
p. 295.7
- Then the jousts resumed.†
p. 296.4
- At sixteen, he was the youngest rider on the field, yet he had unhorsed three knights of the Kingsguard that morning in his first three jousts.†
p. 297.2
- While the commons began their walk home, talking of the day's jousts and the matches to come on the morrow, the court moved to the riverside to begin the feast.†
p. 298.3
- That boy today, his second joust, oh, that was a pretty bit of business.†
p. 302.3
- Ned walked with the king to the jousting field.†
p. 311.8jousting = competing in a contest to knock each other off horses with blunted lances OR competing in any kind of contest
- He had promised to watch the final tilts with Sansa; Septa Mordane was ill today, and his daughter was determined not to miss the end of the jousting.†
p. 311.9
- He shouldered his way to where his daughter was seated and found her as the horns blew for the day's first joust.†
p. 312.1
- There will be one final joust, between the Hound and the Knight of Flowers.†
p. 316.5
- Yet when the jousting began, the day belonged to Rhaegar Targaryen.†
p. 631.2jousting = competing in a contest to knock each other off horses with blunted lances OR competing in any kind of contest
Definitions:
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(1)
(joust) a contest in which knights attempt to knock each other off horses with blunted lances
or:
any kind of contest - (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)