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–noun

1.	a combat in which two knights on horseback attempted to unhorse each other with blunted lances.

2.	this type of combat fought in a highly formalized manner as part of a tournament.

3.	jousts, tournament.

4.	a personal competition or struggle.

–verb (used without object)

5.	to contend in a joust or tournament.

6.	to contend, compete, or struggle: The candidates will joust in a television debate.

Also, just.

[Origin: 1250–1300; (v.) ME justen, jousten < OF juster, joster, jouster to tilt in the lists < VL *juxtāre to approach, clash, deriv. of L juxtā approaching, bordering; (n.) ME juste, jouste < OF juste, etc., deriv. of juster

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—Related forms

jouster, noun

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joust Audio Help (joust, jŭst, jōōst) Pronunciation Key
n.

1. A combat between two mounted knights or men-at-arms using lances; a tilting match.
2. jousts A series of tilting matches; a tournament.
A personal competition or combat suggestive of combat with lances: a politician who relishes a joust with reporters.

intr.v. joust·ed also just·ed, joust·ing also just·ing, jousts also justs

To engage in mounted combat with lances; tilt.
To engage in a personal combat or competition.

[Middle English, from Old French juste, from juster, to joust, from Vulgar Latin *iūxtāre, to be next to, from Latin iūxtā, close by; see yeug- in Indo-European roots.]

joust'er n.

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c.1300, from O.Fr. joster "to joust, tilt," from V.L. juxtare "to approach, come together, meet," originally "be next to," from L. juxta "beside, near," related to jungere "join" (see jugular). The sport was popular with Anglo-Norman knights.

"These early tournaments were very rough affairs, in every sense, quite unlike the chivalrous contests of later days; the rival parties fought in groups, and it was considered not only fair but commendable to hold off until you saw some of your adversaries getting tired and then to join in the attack on them; the object was not to break a lance in the most approved style, but frankly to disable as many opponents as possible for the sake of obtaining their horses, arms, and ransoms." [L.F. Salzman, "English Life in the Middle Ages," Oxford, 1950]

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joust
noun
1.	a combat between two mounted knights tilting against each other with blunted lances
verb
1.	joust against somebody in a tournament by fighting on horseback

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Joust

Guist\, n. [Obs.] Same as Joust. --Spenser.

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Joust

Jos"tle\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Jostled; p. pr. & vb. n. Jostling.] [A dim. of joust, just, v. See Joust, and cf. Justle.] [Written also justle.] To run against and shake; to push out of the way; to elbow; to hustle; to disturb by crowding; to crowd against. "Bullies jostled him." --Macaulay.

Systems of movement, physical, intellectual, and moral, which are perpetually jostling each other. --I. Taylor.

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