Quintain is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 17 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 20 points.
You can make 90 anagrams from letters in quintain (aiinnqtu).
1400-50; late Middle English quyntain object for tilting at Middle French quintaine or Medieval Latin quintāna, of obscure origin; the alleged connection with Latin quīntāna “market place in
Soon he was allowed to tilt with his horse and lance at the quintain.
She resolved that, at any rate, to him nothing more should be said about the quintain that day.
The animal swerved and shied and galloped off wide of the quintain.
After Aimery could strike the quintain with precision he took his first tilt against an older squire.
This appears to be a relic of the ancient Welsh game of quintain, or gwyntyn.
If you can jump over a ditch and hedge, I am sure you could turn the quintain round.
Then she went into the small home park where the quintain was erected.
Accordingly she once more betook herself to the quintain post.
The game of quintain, which I need not describe, was much in vogue.
They always kept up the sport of tilting at the quintain in the water.
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