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quintain

noun as in bull's-eye

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At Quintain Living's Canada Gardens building in Wembley there is an area of allotments beds.

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Next to Wembley Stadium, Quintain is developing what will be the largest BTR project in the UK, with over 5,000 homes.

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At present the field was only used as a practice-ground for tilting, so a quintain had been erected at one end and a ring at the other.

The quintain was a wooden Saracen on a pole.

He was also sore about the shoulders and had a burning ear, from making bosh shots at the quintain— for, of course, practice tilting was done without armour.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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