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quintain
noun as in bull's-eye
Strongest matches
Weak matches
Example Sentences
At Quintain Living's Canada Gardens building in Wembley there is an area of allotments beds.
Next to Wembley Stadium, Quintain is developing what will be the largest BTR project in the UK, with over 5,000 homes.
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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