tourney

noun

1. A tournament.

   “By a knight of ghostes & shadowes, I sumon’d am to Tourney. ten leagues beyond the wide worlds end”

   “And let the recreant traitors seek My tourney court.”

   “We hold a tourney here to-morrow morn, And there is scantly time for half the work.”

   “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.”

verb

1. (archaic)To take part in a tournament.

   “Here indeed, perhaps, by rule of antagonisms, may be the place to mention that, after King Richard’s return, there was a liberty of tourneying given to the fighting men of England […]”