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Joust meaning
A tilting match: a mock combat between two mounted knights or men-at-arms using lances in the lists or enclosed field.
Example sentences (13)
Conan Stevens did provide a bombastic introduction to the character, displaying who the man was in his entirety when he cut the head off of his own horse at a joust.
In the original musical, there’s a joust, but it’s offstage and the audience never sees it.
The dramatic reaction to Casemiro’s yellow card, which ruled the Brazilian out of the game, was as much because of how United will miss him but also for the disappointment of not seeing him joust with Thomas Partey.
He later likened himself to a character from the film A Knight’s Tale, saying: “When they send the knight off to joust, all of his squires behind him, geeing him up, shouting, ‘Get in the cradle’.
Then within two minutes the Blues were reduced to ten men when MacPherson was given a straight red after the joust with a visiting defender on the halfway line.
Through the opening six minutes of the fourth quarter, both sides continued to joust.
Knights enjoy a good joust, but there is nothing they love more than a real battle.
While the world’s top golfers begin to joust for an almost obscene $45 million prize fund at the PGA Tour Championship in Atlanta today, many of their fellow pros in Asia will not have swung a club, or earned a cent, for six months.
Rory McIlroy, the pre-tournament favourite, refused to bow to convention when the prospect of an Augusta weekend joust with Woods was presented to him.
Until women can also contend in the joust or a ruling queen is portrayed as adept and capable, women are still minor characters at Medieval Times.
He noted that "each had shown valour in the joust".
She and the King met last at a joust the day before her arrest.
The joust remained the primary example of knightly display of martial skill throughout the Renaissance (the last Elizabethan Accession Day tilt was held in 1602).