Pummel

4 definitions found

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

  Pummel \Pum"mel\, n. & v. t.
     Same as {Pommel}.
     [1913 Webster]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  pummel
       v : strike, usually with the fist; "The pedestrians pummeled the
           demonstrators" [syn: {pommel}, {biff}]
       [also: {pummelling}, {pummelled}]

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

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