As nouns the difference between joust and quintain
is that joust is a tilting match: a mock combat between two mounted knights or men-at-arms using lances in the lists or enclosed field while quintain is .
As a verb joust
is to engage in mock combat on horseback, as two knights in the lists; to tilt.
joust
English
(Jousting)
Noun
(
en noun)
A tilting match: a mock combat between two mounted knights or men-at-arms using lances in the lists or enclosed field.
Synonyms
* tilt
Verb
(
en verb)
To engage in mock combat on horseback, as two knights in the lists; to tilt.
Derived terms
* jouster
quintain
English
Noun
(
en noun)
* 2011 , Thomas Penn, Winter King , Penguin 2012, p. 285:
- In the tiltyard, his companions felt the juddering impact of his sword-blows and saw the muscled precision of his archery and his tilting at the quintain .
Related terms
* quintile
* quintuplicate
