A circlet of metal suspended from a post which each of a number of riders attempted to carry off on the point of a lance. Chiefly in to run (also ri…

(see quot. 1785 and cf. gander-pulling n. at gander, n. compounds 2).

an Indian cavalry sport, in which the player, riding at full speed, tries to transfix and carry off, on the point of his lance, a tent-peg fixed in…

the feat of cutting in two a suspended lemon with a sword when riding at full speed.

An outdoor game on the same principle, played on horseback.