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▪ I. jouster, juster|ˈdʒaʊʌstə(r), formerly ˈdʒuːstə(r), ˈdʒʌstə(r)|
[a. AF. justour = OF. justeor, justeur, f. juster joust v.1; for suffix, see -er2 3.]
One who jousts or fights on horseback with a spear, in battle or (esp. in later use) in tournament; a tilter; hence, † an antagonist.
c1330R. Brunne Chron. Wace (Rolls) 7657 Þey ar fighters and noble iustours. 13..K. Alis. 3325 Iustere he is, with the beste, He can his launce thorugh threste. 14..tr. Secreta Secret., Priv. Priv. 215 In the ryght hande of thyne enemys, the Swerde mene; In the lyfte hande, the Iusters wyth Speris. 1470–85Malory Arthur x. xvii, A passyng good knyȝt, and the best Iustar that euer I sawe. 1598Yong Diana 491 Let him that hath prooued himselfe so weake a iuster, row in my place. 1820Scott Monast. xxvii, No..plumed jouster of the tilt-yard. 1856G. H. Boker Poems, Leonor de Guzman iii. i, Like two brave jousters at a course of spears.
†b. A horse for jousting; a charger. Obs.
13..K. Alis. 1400 (Lincoln's Inn MS.) Seven and twenty hundredis asondre, Strong in felde, apon iusters..And fif hundred fot men, Y fynde. Ibid. 1867 The knyghtis redy on iusters. [MS. Laud Misc. 622 (a better text) reads destrers in both passages.]
▪ II. jouster
hawker of fish: see jowter. |