intransitive. To contend or fight using weapons; to engage in martial games; spec. to joust; to fence. to play loose (Fencing): to attack an…

intransitive. To joust, tilt.

spec. To engage in a joust or tournament; to run at tilt with lances on horseback.

To strike; to come to blows, encounter, join battle, engage, meet in the shock of battle or tournament. (Often with together.) Obsolete.

intransitive. To take part in a tourney; to contend or engage in a tournament.

intransitive. To strike; to come to blows, meet in the shock of combat, tilt. Obsolete. See cope, v.2

intransitive. = joust, v. 3a.

course of war, jousts of war, tournament of war: a tournament, joust. Similarly, to joust of war. Obsolete.

intransitive. To join in combat or battle; to engage in fight; to close with one's opponent. Obsolete.

intransitive. To joust, tilt; to engage in a sham fight.

Hence, the expression to fight at barriers, and Barriers as the name of a martial exercise in 15th and 16th centuries. Obsolete exc. Historical.

intransitive. spec. To ride in a tournament, to tilt or joust; esp. to charge with a lance or spear at a mark or object. Now historical.

Phr. (from sense 1 or 2). to run at (the) tilt: to ride in a tilt or joust.

To come into collision in the tournament; to just or tilt. Obsolete.

intransitive. To engage in a tilt or joust; to joust.

The wooden shaft of a spear, handle of an implement, etc.; hence, a spear, lance (in to break a tree). Now dialect.

to run (or ride) a-tilt: i.e. in an encounter on horseback with the thrust of a lance. Now usually figurative of controversial encounters. Const. at…

Phr. (from sense 1 or 2). So to run a tilt (see also a-tilt, adv. 2, a, prep.1); also figurative. Also rarely to run tilt.