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  1. n. A medieval European sport in which mounted knights charged at each other bearing lances.
  2. n. Any activity in which two people spar with each other verbally.
  3. v. present participle of joust.

Examples

  • “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

  • “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

  • “There were some outdoor horse-riding sequences with stuntmen in jousting armor.”

    Archive 2003-10-01

  • “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.”

    The Wall Street Journal: Serious Jest, Sharp Jabs

  • “The jousting is the real thing and is worth seeing at least once.”

    Ye olde Utah Renaissance Festival

  • “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.”

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  • “The genesis of the jousting was the stormy denouement of the 2006 quarterfinal, when the”

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  • “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

  • “How could trade, commerce, or even the professions, arts, or sciences, flourish while the entire population spread itself over the bleaching-boards, day after day, to watch the process of "jousting," while the corn was "in the grass," and everybody's notes went to protest?”

    Comic History of England

  • “In the meantime, he tries quintain, a kind of jousting on foot, stoolball, dating from the 15th century and still played today, and jingling, where a man wearing bells is chased by a group of blindfolded women.”

    Telegraph.co.uk: news, business, sport, the Daily Telegraph newspaper, Sunday Telegraph

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