duel

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duel - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  Duel \Du"el\, v. i. & t.
     To fight in single combat. [Obs.]
     [1913 Webster]

  Duel \Du"el\, n. [It. duello, fr. L. duellum, orig., a contest
     between two, which passed into the common form bellum war,
     fr. duo two: cf. F. duel. See Bellicose, Two, and cf.
     Duello.]
     A combat between two persons, fought with deadly weapons, by
     agreement. It usually arises from an injury done or an
     affront given by one to the other.
     [1913 Webster]
  
     Trial by duel (Old Law), a combat between two persons for
        proving a cause; trial by battel.
        [1913 Webster]

duel - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :

  duel
      n 1: a prearranged fight with deadly weapons by two people
           (accompanied by seconds) in order to settle a quarrel over
           a point of honor [syn: duel, affaire d'honneur]
      2: any struggle between two skillful opponents (individuals or
         groups)
      v 1: fight a duel, as over one's honor or a woman; "In the 19th
           century, men often dueled over small matters"

duel - Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (26 May 2007) :

  DUEL
  
     <programming> A front end to gdb by Michael Golan
     <mg@cs.princeton.edu>.  DUEL implements a language designed
     for debugging C programs.  It features efficient ways to
     select and display data items.  It is normally linked into the
     gdb executable, but could stand alone.  It interprets a subset
     of C in addition to its own language.
  
     Version 1.10.
  
     (ftp://ftp.cs.princeton.edu/duel/).
  
     (1993-03-20)
  

duel - Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 :

  51 Moby Thesaurus words for "duel":
     affair of honor, battle, box, brawl, broil, buck, clash, close,
     collide, combat, come to blows, contend, contest, cut and thrust,
     dispute, exchange blows, fence, feud, fight, fight a duel,
     give and take, give satisfaction, grapple, grapple with, jostle,
     joust, mix it up, monomachy, oppose, quarrel, rassle, repel, riot,
     run a tilt, satisfaction, scramble, scuffle, single combat,
     skirmish, spar, strive, struggle, thrust and parry, tilt, tourney,
     traverse, tussle, wage war, war, withstand, wrestle