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Pommel   /pˈɑməl/   Listen
noun
Pommel  n.  A knob or ball; an object resembling a ball in form; as:
(a)
The knob on the hilt of a sword.
(b)
The knob or protuberant part of a saddlebow.
(c)
The top (of the head).
(d)
A knob forming the finial of a turret or pavilion.



verb
Pommel  v. t.  (past & past part. pommeled or pommelled; pres. part. pommeling or pommelling)  (Written also pummel)  To beat soundly, as with the pommel of a sword, or with something knoblike; hence, to beat with the fists.






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"Pommel" Quotes from Famous Books



... get down," returned the Mormon. The deep voice, unwelcoming, vibrant with an odd ring, would have struck a less suspicious man than Dene. The outlaw wrung his leg back over the pommel, sagged in the saddle, and appeared to be pondering the question. Plainly he was uncertain of his ground. But ...
— The Heritage of the Desert • Zane Grey

... playing single-stick with bone poles instead of wooden ones. Two men stand apart, and pommel each other with their fists (a hard bunch of knuckles permanently attached to the arms, and made globular, or extended into a palm, at the pleasure of the proprietor), till one of them, finding himself ...
— White Jacket - or, the World on a Man-of-War • Herman Melville

... fared ill enough with me. Though felled by the blow on my head I was not stunned, only so dazed that my recapture was an easy matter. This time no risks were taken, and with my hands tied behind me by means of a long scarf, the other end of which was looped round the high pommel of a trooper's saddle, I was perforce compelled to accompany my captors as best I could, bleeding ...
— Orrain - A Romance • S. Levett-Yeats

... none the less, was crinkled, and he watched dubiously as Murguia helped the two girls into great armchair-like saddles. There was not a woman's saddle in Tampico, but Jeanne d'Aumerle did not mind that. She, the marchioness, enjoyed the oddity of a pommel in lieu of horn. And the lady's maid might have been on a dromedary, for all the consciousness the poor child ...
— The Missourian • Eugene P. (Eugene Percy) Lyle

... with a blanket. They lift MOORE into it. During the operation the pommel of his sword, which he still wears, is accidentally thrust into ...
— The Dynasts - An Epic-Drama Of The War With Napoleon, In Three Parts, - Nineteen Acts, And One Hundred And Thirty Scenes • Thomas Hardy


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