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quintain

/kwin-tn/US // ˈkwɪn tn //UK // (ˈkwɪntɪn) //

金塔,奎宁,魁北克

Related Words

center中心,中央,中间,中心点target目标,目标人物,目标是,目标是什么butt屁股,臀部,屁屁,屁股的问题omphalos姆帕罗斯,姆巴罗,姆巴罗斯,姆帕罗斯dead center死中心,正中,死点,死角处hole in one一孔之见,一孔之隔,一孔不入,一孔之洞home run全垒打,本垒打,家政服务

Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : an object mounted on a post or attached to a movable crossbar mounted on a post, used as a target in the medieval sport of tilting.
    • : the sport of tilting at a quintain.

Synonyms & Antonyms

as inbull's-eye
Synonyms
butt屁股,臀部,屁屁,屁股的问题center中心,中央,中间,中心点omphalos姆帕罗斯,姆巴罗,姆巴罗斯,姆帕罗斯target目标,目标人物,目标是,目标是什么dead center死中心,正中,死点,死角处direct hit直接命中,直接击中,直击,直接击打hole in one一孔之见,一孔之隔,一孔不入,一孔之洞home run全垒打,本垒打,家政服务

Examples

  • They always kept up the sport of tilting at the Quintain in the water.

  • He had undertaken to come mounted on a nag of his father's and show the way at the quintain post.

  • The quintain post stood right before him, and the square board at which he was to tilt was fairly in his way.

  • Miss Thorne had to explain the noble game she spoke of, and Frank Foster had to own that he never had ridden at the quintain.

  • This the flying equestrian mounted, and as he was swinging to and fro he had to take with a sword the ring off a quintain.

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