Emily Dickinson Lexicon

JUST, n. [Fr. jouste, now joute; Sp. justa; Port. id.; It. giostra; probably from the root of jostle or justle. The primary sense is to thrust, to drive, to push.]

A mock encounter on horseback; a combat for sport or for exercise, in which the combatants pushed with lances and swords, man to man, in mock fight; a tilt; one of the exercises at tournaments. – Encyc.