Look up: quintain

1. Quintain
   Quin'tain noun [ French quintaine , Late Latin quintana ; confer W. chwintan a kind of hymeneal game.] An object to be tilted at; -- called also quintel . [ Written also quintin .] » A common form in the Middle ...
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2. Quintain
   • (n.) An object to be tilted at; -- called also quintel.
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3. quintain
   a five-line stanza, such as a limerick or Edmund Waller's 'Go lovely rose.' Also called a cinquain.
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4. quintain
   target for jousting practice
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5. Quintain
   A quintain was a figure or other object set up to be tilted at with a lance. Quintains were constructed in various ways, a common form in England consisted of an upright post, on the top of which was a horizontal bar turning on a pivot. To one end of the horizontal bar was hung a sand-bag and at the...
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6. Quintain
   (poetry) `Quintain` means any poetic form containing 5 lines such as tanka, cinquain, and limerick. Example : <poem> All, all a-lonely: Three little children sitting on the sand, All, all a-lonely, Three little children sitting in the sand, All, all a-lonely Down in the green wood shadyââ...
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