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English Dictionary: tourney by the DICT Development Group
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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
tourney
n
  1. a sporting competition in which contestants play a series of games to decide the winner
    Synonym(s): tournament, tourney
v
  1. engage in a tourney
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Tourney \Tour"ney\, v. i. [Cf.OF. torneier. See {Tourney}, n. ]
      To perform in tournaments; to tilt.
  
               Well could he tourney, and in lists debate. --Spenser.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Tourney \Tour"ney\, n. [OF. tornei, tornoi, F. tournoi, fr. OF.
      torneier, tornoier, tournoier, to tit, to tourney, F.
      tournoyer to turn round and round. See {Turn}, v. t.]
      A tournament. --Bacon.
  
               At tilt or tourney or like warlike game. --Spenser.
  
               We hold a tourney here to-morrow morn, And there is
               scantly time for half the work.               --Tennyson.
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