Pommel

4 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Pommel \Pom"mel\, n. [OE. pomel, OF. pomel, F. pommeau, LL.
     pomellus, fr. L. pomum fruit, LL. also, an apple. See
     {Pome}.]
     A knob or ball; an object resembling a ball in form; as:
     (a) The knob on the hilt of a sword. --Macaulay.
     (b) The knob or protuberant part of a saddlebow.


     (c) The top (of the head). --Chaucer.
     (d) A knob forming the finial of a turret or pavilion.
         [1913 Webster]

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Pommel \Pom"mel\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Pommeled}or {Pommelled};
     p. pr. & vb. n. {Pommeling} or {Pommelling}.]
     To beat soundly, as with the pommel of a sword, or with
     something knoblike; hence, to beat with the fists. [Written
     also {pummel}.]
     [1913 Webster]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  pommel
       n 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 [syn: {saddlebow}]
       3: an ornament in the shape of a ball on the hilt of a sword or
          dagger [syn: {knob}]
       v : strike, usually with the fist; "The pedestrians pummeled the
           demonstrators" [syn: {pummel}, {biff}]
       [also: {pommelling}, {pommelled}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  66 Moby Thesaurus words for "pommel":
     bang, baste, bastinado, batter, beat, belabor, bellyband, belt,
     birch, buffet, cane, cinch, club, cowhide, cudgel, cut, drub,
     flagellate, flail, flap, flog, fustigate, girt, girth,
     give a whipping, give the stick, hammer, horn, horsewhip, jockey,
     knock, knout, lace, lambaste, larrup, lash, lay on, maul, paste,
     patter, pelt, pistol-whip, pound, pulverize, pummel, rap, rawhide,
     scourge, sledgehammer, smite, spank, stirrup, strap, stripe,
     surcingle, swinge, switch, thrash, thresh, thump, trounce,
     truncheon, wallop, whale, whip, whop