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To point or thrust, as a lance.
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To point or thrust a weapon at.
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To run or ride, and thrust with a lance; to practice the military game or exercise of thrusting with a lance, as a combatant on horseback; to joust; also, figuratively, to engage in any combat or movement resembling that of horsemen tilting with lances.
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A thrust, as with a lance.
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A military exercise on horseback, in which the combatants attacked each other with lances; a tournament.
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A wall or fence, often of cloth-covered wood, intended to separate mounted participants in a joust. Introduced during the fifteenth century to prevent head-on collisions between riders.
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a combat between two mounted knights tilting against each other with blunted lances
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