A tilting match: a mock combat between two mounted knights or men-at-arms using lances in the lists or enclosed field.

To engage in mock combat on horseback, as two knights in the lists; to tilt. / To engage in verbal sparring over an important issue. (used of two people, both of whom participate more or less equally)

simple past tense and past participle of joust

Third-person singular simple present indicative form of joust

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

present participle of joust

plural of jousting

plural of jouster

A person who jousts. / A horse used as a mount when jousting.

Alternative form of jowter