Found 2 items, similar to tourney.
English → English (WordNet)
Definition: tourney
tourney
n : a sporting competition in which contestants play a series of
games to decide the winner [syn:
tournament]
v : engage in a tourney
English → English (gcide)
Definition: Tourney
Tourney
\Tour"ney\, n. [OF. tornei, tornoi, F. tournoi, fr. OF.
torneier, tornoier, tournoier, to tit, to tourney, F.
tournoyer to turn round and round. See
Turn, v. t.]
A tournament. --Bacon.
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At tilt or tourney or like warlike game. --Spenser.
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We hold a tourney here to-morrow morn,
And there is scantly time for half the work.
--Tennyson.
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Tourney
\Tour"ney\, v. i. [Cf.OF. torneier. See
Tourney, n. ]
To perform in tournaments; to tilt.
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Well could he tourney, and in lists debate. --Spenser.
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