[a. AF. justour = OF. justeor, justeur, f. juster JUST v.1; for suffix, see -ER2 3.] One who justs or fights on horseback with a spear, in battle or (esp. in later use) in tournament; a tilter; hence, † an antagonist.
c. 1330. R. Brunne, Chron. Wace (Rolls), 7657. Þey ar fighters and noble iustours.
13[?]. K. Alis., 3325. Iustere he is, with the beste, He can his launce thorugh threste.
14[?]. trans. Secreta Secret., Priv. Priv. (E.E.T.S.), 215. In the ryght hande of thyne enemys, the Swerde mene; In the lyfte hande, the Iusters wyth Speris.
1470–85. Malory, Arthur, X. xvii. A passyng good knyȝt, and the best Iustar that euer I sawe.
1598. Yong, Diana, 491. Let him that hath prooued himselfe so weake a iuster, row in my place.
1820. Scott, Monast., xxvii. No … plumed jouster of the tilt-yard.
1856. Boker, Poems, Leonor de Guzman, III. i. Like two brave jousters at a course of spears.
† b. A horse for justing; a charger. Obs.
13[?]. K. Alis., 1400 (Lincoln’s Inn MS.). Seven and twenty hundredis asondre, Strong in felde, apon iusters … And fif hundred fot men, Y fynde. Ibid., 1867. The knyghtis redy on iusters. [MS. Laud Misc. 622 (a better text) reads destrers in both passages.]
