[
US
/ˈpɑməɫ/
]
[ UK /pˈɒməl/ ]
[ UK /pˈɒməl/ ]
NOUN
- a handgrip that a gymnast uses when performing exercises on a pommel horse
- an ornament in the shape of a ball on the hilt of a sword or dagger
- handgrip formed by the raised front part of a saddle
VERB
-
strike, usually with the fist
The pedestrians pummeled the demonstrators
How To Use pommel In A Sentence
- These muscles are particularly used in gymnastics on pommel, rings and parallel bars, mainly to fix the position of the upper body with the arms. Muscle Management
- Our pommel horse ace clearly wants to give the gut a pummelling. The Sun
- The pommel was a lion head of bronze, the hilt leather-bound, the blade sharp and true. Shield of Thunder
- The protruding scimitar handle was bound with some kind of dark twine with a dark stone mounted on the pommel, set in silver.
- He spurred the snorting and reluctant horse into the torrent, though the water, rising high on the upper side, broke both over the pommel and the croupe of his saddle. Saint Ronan's Well
- These muscles are particularly used in gymnastics on pommel, rings and parallel bars, mainly to fix the position of the upper body with the arms. Muscle Management
- He then brained the rider with his sword pommel and ran him through with a quick thrust as he tried to rise. And Other Tales Of Valdemar
- ` ` Good lad! see that you hit every one as you pommelled me; don't let any one escape. Taras Bulba and Other Tales
- The earliest item is a Viking bronze sword pommel from the late tenth century incised with diamond shapes and simplified animal forms.
- It was a tough period, in which his grandmother died, and emotion overcame him when he realised that he had qualified for the pommel final. Times, Sunday Times