Contaminate
• A thrust with a lance, which fails of its intended effect. • An injury done to a lance in an encounter, without its being broken; also, a breaking of a lance in an encounter in a dishonorable or unscientific manner. • To thrust ineffectually with a lance. • To injure, as a lance, without breaking it; also, to break, as a lance, but usually in an unknightly or unscientific manner.