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Lancing vs Jousting - What's the difference?

lancing | jousting |

As verbs the difference between lancing and jousting

is that lancing is while jousting is .

As nouns the difference between lancing and jousting

is that lancing is the act by which something is lanced while jousting is a medieval european sport in which mounted knights charged at each other bearing lances.

lancing

English

Verb

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    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • The act by which something is lanced.
  • * 2011 , Paul Oppenheimer, Machiavelli: A Life Beyond Ideology (page 46)
    • Bernardo's physicians treated their lawyer-patient in the ordinary ignorant ways, with debilitating bleedings, plus helpful lancings of the abscessed boils.

    jousting

    English

    Noun

  • A medieval European sport in which mounted knights charged at each other bearing lances.
  • (figurative) Any activity in which two people spar with each other verbally.

    • Verb

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