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Definitions of duel in various dictionaries:
noun - a prearranged fight with deadly weapons by two people (accompanied by seconds) in order to settle a quarrel over a point of honor
noun - any struggle between two skillful opponents (individuals or groups)
verb - fight a duel, as over one's honor or a woman
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Contest involving drawing |
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a formal fight, using guns or swords ( weapons with long, sharp blades), arranged esp. in the past between two people to decide an argument |
A prearranged, formal combat between two persons, usually fought to settle a point of honor. |
A struggle for domination between two contending persons, groups, or ideas. |
To engage (another) in or as if in formal combat. |
To oppose actively and forcefully. |
To engage in or as if in formal combat. |
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A duel is an arranged engagement in combat between two people, with matched weapons, in accordance with agreed-upon rules. Duels in this form were chiefly practiced in early modern Europe with precedents in the medieval code of chivalry, and continued into the modern period (19th to early 20th centuries) especially among military officers. * During the 17th and 18th centuries (and earlier), duels were mostly fought with swords (the rapier, and later the smallsword), but beginning in the late 18th century in England, duels were more commonly fought using pistols. Fencing and pistol duels continued to co-exist throughout the 19th century. * The duel was based on a code of honor. Duels were fought not so much to kill the opponent as to gain "satisfaction", that is, to restore one's honor by demonstrating a willingness to risk one's life for it, and as such the tradition of dueling was originally reserved for the male members of nobility; however, in the modern era it extended to those of the |