Joust
Part of speech: noun
Definition: A tilting match: a mock combat between two mounted knights or men-at-arms using lances in the lists or enclosed field.
Part of speech: verb
Definition: To engage in mock combat on horseback, as two knights in the lists; to tilt.
Tilt
Part of speech: verb
Definition: to slope or incline (something); to slant(jousting) to charge (at someone) with a lanceto forge (something) with a tilt hammerto play worse than usual (often as a result of previous bad luck)
Part of speech: noun
Definition: a slope or inclinationa jousta canvas covering for carts etc.
Example sentence: No adviser to a president is going to get his way all of the time, but at a minimum, that adviser should be able to defend the tilt of an administration's policy as if it were his own. If not, he should make room for those who can.