vbl. sb. [f. JUST v.1 + -ING1.] The action of the verb JUST1; fighting or tilting on horseback with a lance; spec. a tournament.
13[?]. Coer de L., 252. The fyrste yere that he was kyng, At Salybury he made a iustynge.
c. 1400. Maundev., iii. (1839), 17. A fair place for iustynges or for other Pleyes and Desportes.
c. 1440. Lonelich, Grail, lii. 635. Sire knyht, ȝoure Iostyng lost han ȝe.
1556. Chron. Gr. Friars (Camden), 8. The kynge made a gret justynge be syde Kyngstone uppon Temes.
1622. Bacon, Hen. VII., 106. The King … kept Triumphes of Iusting and Tourney during all that Moneth.
1823. Praed, Poems, Troubadour. There was a jousting at Chichester.
1892. Athenæum, 11 June, 757/1. Major abhors the dangerous jousting with the spear.
fig. 1519. Horman, Vulg., 103. In that erthquake, there was a great hurlyng and iustynge of one house ageynst an other.
b. attrib. and Comb., as justing-field, -horse, -place, -spear.
1478. Botoner, Itin. (Nasmith, 1778), 212. Via eundo … per le justyng-place ab antiquis diebus.
1485. Caxton, Paris & V., 7. He ordeyned a Ioustyng place wythin his cyte of Uyenne.
1530. Palsgr., 235/2. Justynghorse, chenal de jovste.
1773–83. Hoole, Orl. Fur., XL. 461. With arnour try’d, and swords of temper wrought And jousting spears.
1854. Patmore, Angel in Ho., XI. i. They made her face the jousting field Of joy and beautiful alarm.
