Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary · 1913

Tourney

Tourney , noun

[Old French tornei, tornoi, French tournoi, from Old French torneier, tornoier, tournoier, to tit, to tourney, French tournoyer to turn round and round. See Turn, transitive verb]

A tournament. — Bacon
At tilt or tourney or like warlike game. — Spenser
We hold a tourney here to-morrow morn, And there is scantly time for half the work. — Tennyson

Tourney , intransitive verb

[CompareOF. torneier. See Tourney, n. ]

To perform in tournaments; to tilt.
Well could he tourney, and in lists debate. — Spenser