| 单词 |
jousting |
| 释义 |
jousting, justing, vbl. n.|ˈdʒaʊstɪŋ, formerly ˈdʒuːstɪŋ, ˈdʒʌstɪŋ|
[f. joust v. + -ing1.]
The action of the verb joust; fighting or tilting on horseback with a lance; spec. a tournament.
13..Coer de L. 252 The fyrste yere that he was kyng, At Salybury he made a iustynge. c1400Mandeville iii. (1839) 17 A fair place for iustynges or for other Pleyes and Desportes. c1440Lonelich Grail lii. 635 Sire knyht, ȝoure Iostyng lost han ȝe. 1556Chron. Gr. Friars (Camden) 8 The kynge made a gret justynge be syde Kyngstone uppon Temes. 1622Bacon Hen. VII 106 The King..kept Triumphes of Iusting and Tourney during all that Moneth. 1823Praed Poems, Troubadour, There was a jousting at Chichester. 1892Athenæum 11 June 757/1 Major abhors the dangerous jousting with the spear.
fig.1519W. Horman Vulg. 103 In that erthquake, there was a great hurlyng and iustynge of one house ageynst an other.
b. attrib. and Comb., as jousting-field, jousting-horse, jousting-place, jousting-spear.
1478Botoner Itin. (Nasmith 1778) 212 Via eundo..per le justyng-place ab antiquis diebus. 1485Caxton Paris & V. 7 He ordeyned a Ioustyng place wythin his cyte of Uyenne. 1530Palsgr. 235/2 Justynghorse, cheual de jovste. 1773–83Hoole Orl. Fur. xl. 461 With armour try'd, and swords of temper wrought And jousting spears. 1854Patmore Angel in Ho. xi. i, They made her face the jousting field Of joy and beautiful alarm. |
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