1. duel - Noun
2. duel - Verb
A combat between two persons, fought with deadly weapons, by agreement. It usually arises from an injury done or an affront given by one to the other.
To fight in single combat.
Source: Webster's dictionaryThe study of beauty is a duel in which the artist cries with terror before being defeated. Charles Baudelaire
Poetry is a rich, full-bodied whistle, cracked ice crunching in pails, the night that numbs the leaf, the duel of two nightingales, the sweet pea that has run wild, Creation's tears in shoulder blades. Boris Pasternak
A duel is just two murderers who agree to take turns trying to kill each other. Orson Scott Card
I wish we lived in the day where you could challenge a person to a duel. Zell Miller
In matching your wits against yourself you take on the shrewdest and wiliest antagonist you can have, and consequently a victorious outcome in this duel of wits brings a great feeling of triumph. Dorothea Brande
In the duel of sex woman fights from a dreadnought and man from an open raft. H. L. Mencken