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joust

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1. joust - Noun

2. joust - Verb

Meaning

To engage in mock combat on horseback, as two knights in the lists; to tilt.

A tilting match; a mock combat on horseback between two knights in the lists or inclosed field.

Source: Webster's dictionary

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After a few tumbles caused by the side-stand sinking into soft ground, or a joust with a gateway, the little orange lights (or white ones, depending on how long they had been left out in the sun) would be hanging down like a piece of grazed skin. Source: Internet

He noted that "each had shown valour in the joust". Source: Internet

Dubliner Sheils laid down an early marker at the Orritor circuit by winning Friday evening’s Supersport joust, with runner-up McGee 0.2 seconds behind, followed by William Dunlop and brother Michael. Source: Internet

Even acknowledging that such rhetorical flourishes are part of a pre-summit joust, after denuclearization -- if it happens -- the U.S. wants to see a North Korea sans Kim. Source: Internet

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. Source: Internet

I still go to tag him in things the way I used to, when we’d joust with words and ideas and swap links we knew the other would love, almost like our marriage was built entirely on, ‘Saw this and thought of you …’ Source: Internet

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