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# joust

«joust» in Mova's school dictionary: **To joust was to fight on horseback with long wooden poles…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 1 sentence of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

verb (joust, jousts, jousted, jousting); noun (a joust, jousts)

### meaning for a pupil

1) To joust was to fight on horseback with long wooden poles called lances, as knights did in the Middle Ages, often as a sport at tournaments. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/J/joust/#m1)

2) A joust is one such contest between two knights. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/J/joust/#m2)

3) To joust can also mean to argue or compete, as people do in a debate. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/J/joust/#m3)

### sense in the lessons

In history lessons about castles, knights and the Middle Ages, and in stories and fairs where jousting is shown. In news, politicians «joust» in debates. Phrases: «a jousting tournament», «joust with», «verbal jousting».

### examples

- The knights jousted in front of the king. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/J/joust/#x1)
- Each knight tried to knock the other off his horse in the joust. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/J/joust/#x2)
- We watched a jousting show at the castle. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/J/joust/#x3)
- Jousting was a dangerous sport. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/J/joust/#x4)
- The knight's lance broke during the joust. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/J/joust/#x5)
- The two candidates jousted on television. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/J/joust/#x6)
- In the story, the young squire won his first joust. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/J/joust/#x7)
- Jousting knights wore heavy armour. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/J/joust/#x8)

### note

Regular verb. Say «jowst» (rhymes with «doused») or «just». A tournament was a big event with many jousts.

### In the corpora

- [At tournaments knights jousted, charging at each other on horseback with blunted lances in front of cheering crowds.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/21-castles-knights-and-cathedrals/14/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «joust» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/J/joust/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.