Tourney - What does it mean?
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tournament
*1793,
* Tennyson
* {{quote-book, i1=*
, year=1960
, author=
, title=(Jeeves in the Offing)
, section=chapter XIV
, passage=Kipper stood blinking, as I had sometimes seen him do at the boxing tourneys in which he indulged when in receipt of a shrewd buffet on some tender spot like the tip of the nose.}}
(archaic) To take part in a tournament.
*1843 , '', book 2, ch. XV, ''Practical — Devotional
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has no English definition.
As a noun tourney
is tournament.As a verb tourney
is to take part in a tournament.tourney
English
Noun
(en noun)- And let the recreant traitors seek
- My tourney court.
- (Francis Bacon)
- We hold a tourney here to-morrow morn, / And there is scantly time for half the work.
Verb
(en verb)- Here indeed, perhaps, by rule of antagonisms, may be the place to mention that, after ’s return, there was a liberty of tourneying given to the fighting men of England […]