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Pommel   /pˈɑməl/   Listen
Pommel

noun
1.
A handgrip that a gymnast uses when performing exercises on a pommel horse.
2.
Handgrip formed by the raised front part of a saddle.  Synonym: saddlebow.
3.
An ornament in the shape of a ball on the hilt of a sword or dagger.  Synonym: knob.
verb
(past & past part. pommeled or pommelled; pres. part. pommeling or pommelling)  (Written also pummel)
1.
Strike, usually with the fist.  Synonyms: biff, pummel.



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... went, when he was suddenly stopped by a violent recoil of his horse from the burning embers, on which he had stepped, and which had been concealed from view by the ashes which covered them. William, unwieldy and comparatively helpless as he was, was thrown with great force upon the pommel of the saddle. He saved himself from falling from the horse, but he immediately found that he had sustained some serious internal injury. He was obliged to dismount, and to be conveyed away, by a very sudden transition, from the dreadful scene of conflagration and vengeance ...
— William the Conqueror - Makers of History • Jacob Abbott
... was quite wonderful. She pointed out its wonderful qualities. It was of so delicate a weave that it might have been thrust into a man's pocket; yet, unfolded, it proved to be of the dimensions of a blanket. And there was warmth in it. She folded it neatly and explained how it might be tied to the pommel of the saddle. It would not be in ...
— Children of the Desert • Louis Dodge
... The idea!" answered Gunner Sobey, cheerfully. "Never you mind, but catch hold o' the pommel. We'll ...
— The Mayor of Troy • Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch
... dismember my dismemberer. Now, then, be the prophet and the fulfiller one. That's more than ye, ye great gods, ever were. I laugh and hoot at ye, ye cricket-players, ye pugilists, ye deaf Burkes and blinded Bendigoes! I will not say as schoolboys do to bullies—Take some one of your own size; don't pommel ME! No, ye've knocked me down, and I am up again; but YE have run and hidden. Come forth from behind your cotton bags! I have no long gun to reach ye. Come, Ahab's compliments to ye; come and see if ye can swerve me. Swerve me? ye cannot swerve me, else ye swerve ...
— Moby Dick; or The Whale • Herman Melville
... reports, and congratulated himself on the realistic qualities of his little drama. Then suddenly his hat went spinning from his head. At the same instant a bullet ploughed through the leather on his pommel. Zip! zip! went other bullets past his ears. The boys of Triangle X outfit were beginning to ...
— Blazed Trail Stories - and Stories of the Wild Life • Stewart Edward White


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