单词 | hastilude |
释义 | hastiluden. historical. A medieval tilt or tournament involving combat using spears or lances. Also: the activity or skill of fighting with a spear or lance, spear-play. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > fighting sports > spear-play > [noun] play of (the) cane(s1556 spear-running1575 hastilude1586 spear-playa1641 jerid1853 1586 J. Ferne Blazon of Gentrie 366 In any Tilt, Iust, Hastilude or Turney. a1641 J. Smyth Berkeley MSS (1883) I. 148 To concurre with swords, fight at barriers, excercise hastyludes. 1688 J. Barnes Hist. Edward III ii. vii. 419 Henry Earl of Lancaster, held a little after Easter a solemn Hastilude at Lincoln. 1724 A. Johnston Notitia Anglicana I. p. xiii Whence began Tournaments, Jastings, Tiltings, Hastiludes, and the like. 1773 J. Pechell Hist. Univ. Oxf. to Demise Queen Elizabeth 49 Hastiludes, by some, justs or tournaments, were much in fashion in this place. 1845 Gentleman's Mag. ii. 239 That tangible memorial of round table hastiludes still preserved in the building. 1879 W. H. Dixon Royal Windsor I. xviii. 187 One sport, called hastiludes, was no less dangerous than war itself. 1927 E. K. Chambers Arthur of Brit. iv. 128 Edward III, after a three days' hastilude at Windsor in 1344, took a solemn vow. 1986 J. R. V. Barker Tournament in Eng. 161 The many different forms of hastilude which were available to the medieval knight offered him a wide choice. 2005 N. Saul in St George's Chapel Windsor i. 2 Participation in hastiludes at court..encouraged the king's knights to develop a powerful, but still fluid, group identity. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2018; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < |
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