do battle vs joust

do battle

verb
  • To engage in a fight; to battle. 

joust

verb
  • To engage in verbal sparring over an important issue. (used of two people, both of whom participate more or less equally) 

  • To touch penises while engaging in a sex act, especially oral sex. 

  • To engage in mock combat on horseback, as two knights in the lists; to tilt. 

noun
  • A tilting match: a mock combat between two mounted knights or men-at-arms using lances in the lists or enclosed field. 

How often have the words do battle and joust occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )