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jousting - definition and meaning
Definitions
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noun A medieval European sport in which mounted knights charged at each other bearing lances .
noun Any activity in which two people spar with each other verbally.
verb Present participle of joust .
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They pal around like modern boys, playing tennis, indulging in jousting matches, fulfilling the boys-will-be-boys mantra.
Amrie’s Take on TV: THE TUDORS | the TV addict 2007
But the promised jousting is seemingly not to be in Dunk's future when he is hard pressed to find a sponsor for the tournament.
REVIEW: The Hedge Knight by George R.R. Martin 2007
There were some outdoor horse-riding sequences with stuntmen in jousting armor.
Archive 2003-10-05 Michael Evans 2003
There were some outdoor horse-riding sequences with stuntmen in jousting armor.
Archive 2003-10-01 Michael Evans 2003
There were some outdoor horse-riding sequences with stuntmen in jousting armor.
View from the Northern Border Michael Evans 2003
NGT Knights during a joust at the Longs Peak Scottish Highland Festival in Colorado In the world of extreme sports, there may be nothing that can top full-contact jousting , which is the subject of Nat Geo's "Knights of Mayhem."
Serious Jest, Sharp Jabs Nancy deWolf Smith 2011
The jousting is the real thing and is worth seeing at least once.
Ye olde Utah Renaissance Festival 2010
I'm willing to bet that the jousting was the most popular (but they can't measure the free games) so I'm confident we were running either 2 of the top 3 games at the SBF or we were running the top two hands down.
waterdiluted Diary Entry waterdiluted 2006
The genesis of the jousting was the stormy denouement of the 2006 quarterfinal, when the
NYT > Home Page 2010
This race is open enough, and the immigration issue is powerful enough, I think you will see some second-tier candidates trying to break through on immigration, and McCain-Romney kind of jousting a bit.
CNN Transcript Jun 5, 2007 2007
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State sport of Maryland.
August 25, 2008