quintain / ˈkwɪn tn /

⚽高中词汇金塔奎宁魁北克

quintain 的定义

n. 名词 noun
  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.
  2. the sport of tilting at a quintain.

quintain 近义词

quintain

等同于 bull's-eye

更多quintain例句

  1. They always kept up the sport of tilting at the Quintain in the water.
  2. He had undertaken to come mounted on a nag of his father's and show the way at the quintain post.
  3. The quintain post stood right before him, and the square board at which he was to tilt was fairly in his way.
  4. 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.
  5. 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.