(v. i.) To engage in mock combat on horseback, as two knights in the lists; to tilt.
(v. i.) A tilting match; a mock combat on horseback between two knights in the lists or inclosed field.
Example Sentences:
(1) Each Drop the Mic episode will feature four celebrities verbally jousting with each other with the audience choosing the winner.
(2) This was to have been a free-admission hit-and-giggle day before the night session but the weather forced the cancellation of John and Patrick McEnroe’s little joust with Michael Chang and Todd Martin (also wiping out the evening programme) so those who braved the elements got to see some proper tennis.
(3) Behind the verbal jousting and the on-screen stardust lies a bitter battle for broadband, television and phone customers between the two companies.
(4) Political jousting His reign began in May 2004 after his predecessor Greg Dyke left following the Hutton report.
(5) For their part, intellectuals who begin toeing a party line inevitably become less worthwhile, and political jousting can leave little time and space for serious, radical thinking.
(6) For the Conservatives, Gove is the man to influence the PM; his joust with the inquiry judge today will not surely be his last.
(7) DH Milan reject Chelsea’s £35m offer for Romagnoli Gray charged by FA over 2012 homophobic tweets Bamford joins Burnley on season-long loan 7) Lukaku returns on hunt for scoring touch Yannick Bolasie and Ashley Williams could make their Premier League debuts for Everton this weekend but the outcome of the joust with Stoke could depend to a large extent on the performance of a player who seemed to spend much of the summer trying to leave Goodison Park.
(8) Sometimes there's an atmosphere of surreal wit (during BMX jousting, for instance), and at other times it's as crass and basic as it could possibly be (eating 24 boiled eggs, and then regurgitating them with a mind to eating 24 more).
(9) Against a background of political jousting – which led to a six-year licence fee deal – continuing efficiency savings and moving 2,300 jobs to the BBC's new northern headquarters in Salford, Thompson has not had an easy time.
(10) I like to think of Childe Roland, the paladin whose journey to the Dark Tower forms the basis of my new book The Broken King , as on the fringes of the Arthurian court: perhaps he pricked past Arthur on the plain, had a friendly joust, and galloped off again, his helm glinting in the sunlight.
(11) A mid-air collision between jousting Greek and Turkish fighters in disputed airspace over the Aegean Sea yesterday threatened to reignite age old rivalries.
(12) While the two candidates jousted on television, cutlery clinked.
(13) From her viewpoint, David Davis, Liam Fox and Mr Johnson are all satisfactorily engaged in jousting among themselves and trying to run up a political scree slope rather than plotting to bring her down.
(14) From 2003-2012 The Daily Show brought home the best variety award and I don't know what the crew will do without it – maybe joust with their other dozens of awards.
(15) Telling off Trump might score him some short-term political points, pundits say – though the president tends to talk in off-scripted statements and in a stiff prose, heavy on protocol, which doesn’t lend itself to strong comments or verbal jousting.
(16) Listening more to what’s not being said, watching as the various factions on the right joust for power and influence.
(17) He was used and made to look ridiculous in front of those he governs.” Why Trump was invited and then treated so softly left pundits stupefied, especially since Peña Nieto, who is not known for verbal jousting or talking without scripts, missed such a good chance to improve his poor approval rating.
(18) In Thor , the bodacious nordic deity spends most of the movie worrying about a race of tall, antisocial creatures called The Frost Giants of Jotunheim, and does quite a bit of jousting with the testy emissaries of the US government, when the person he should really be worrying about is his brother, Loki.
(19) Rival Knights (Free + IAP) Jousting: pretty hard, whether in real life or in games – I was frequently brought to tears by the jousting section in Defender of the Crown as a child.
(20) Because Miliband had been hit first, and in a way likely to have crossed the line for many undecided voters (who, more so than their partisan cousins, tend to demand a civil and respectful tone from jousting politicians), he had permission from the voters to punch back, and punch back hard.
Spear
Definition:
(n.) A long, pointed weapon, used in war and hunting, by thrusting or throwing; a weapon with a long shaft and a sharp head or blade; a lance.
(n.) Fig.: A spearman.
(n.) A sharp-pointed instrument with barbs, used for stabbing fish and other animals.
(n.) A shoot, as of grass; a spire.
(n.) The feather of a horse. See Feather, n., 4.
(n.) The rod to which the bucket, or plunger, of a pump is attached; a pump rod.
(v. t.) To pierce with a spear; to kill with a spear; as, to spear a fish.
(v. i.) To shoot into a long stem, as some plants. See Spire.
Example Sentences:
(1) The work, The Spear, by Brett Murray, unleashed a brouhaha that has hogged headlines for more than a week in South Africa and earned that inexhaustible accolade "painting-gate".
(2) To find out if any stone tips were being used on spears any earlier than that, Wilkins examined sharp stones found at a site called Kathu Pan, in the Northern Cape region of South Africa.
(3) If they refuse to do so, make the least show of resistance, or attempt to run away from you, you will fire upon and compell [sic] them to surrender, breaking and destroying the Spears, Clubs, and Waddies of all those you take prisoner.
(5) The spear-phishing tricks we saw the Chinese secret police using against the Dalai Lama in 2008 were being used by Russian crooks to steal money from US companies by 2010.
(6) The wealth magazine Spear’s noted, in an interview with a company that provides contract cleaners to the Dorchester, that a cleaner at the Park Lane hotel would have to work for 56 hours to be able to take an entry-level room for the night , before tax.
(7) Manipulation of intra abdominal embedded spears may require unusual surgical procedures, and no attempt to extract the weapon should be made before emergency laparotomy is carried out.
(8) López and Machado were defeated by Capriles in opposition primaries, but they rejected Capriles's willingness to enter into dialogue with Maduro on public safety following the murder in January of Mónica Spear, a former Miss Venezuela .
(9) Hemicellulose B and holocellulose from spear grass (Heteropogon contortus) were the best sources of carbon, and the optimum temperature was 27 degrees.
(10) Spears joked that she was “thrilled” at being added to the dating app.
(11) To evaluate these hypotheses, the nucleotide sequence of the mitochondrial cytochrome oxidase subunit II gene was determined from a bushbaby (Galago senegalensis), flying lemur (Cynocephalus variegatus), tree shrew (Tupaia glis), spear-nosed bat (Phyllostomus hastatus), rousette bat (Rousettus leschenaulti), and nine-banded armadillo (Dasypus novemcinctus) and was compared with published sequences of a human, cow, and mouse.
(12) Jesus' death was ensured by the thrust of a soldier's spear into his side.
(13) What an incredible contrast between the passionate compassion so emotively expressed in Britain and the ruthless bloodlust in Japan, where tens of thousands of dolphins are killed with spears on beaches every year and where crowds cheer the departure of a huge mechanised fleet whose objective is the mass slaughter of these majestic mammals in the Antarctic whale sanctuary.
(14) Spectra were obtained with synchrotron radiation from the SPEAR storage ring using highly sensitive fluorescence detectors.
(15) Twenty four hours of food and maternal deprivation, shown previously to increase brain serotonin and 5-hydroxyindole acetic acid and their ratio in neonates (L. P. Spear & F. M. Scalzo, 1984, Developmental Brain Research, in press) was observed to induce tail flick analgesia, an effect blocked by metergoline.
(16) Adult male hunters who used dogs and carried only one spear were injured most frequently.
(17) I try not to read my reviews, but there's always some friend who'll come along and, under the guise of trying to comfort you, let you know that you've been speared.
(18) This tusk specimen contains a metal spear with a wooden component, which is surrounded by a quiver-like osseous encasement.
(19) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Armed with a makeshift spear, an Assam man sets out to chase away the elephant that crushed a woman to death in the village of Galighat.
(20) By the 16th century the conduction of sound by a rod or the staff of a spear was reported by a number of writers; however, these writers considered these phenomena as a curiosity rather than having practical value.