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[ US /ˈpɑməɫ/ ]
[ UK /pˈɒmə‍l/ ]
NOUN
  1. a handgrip that a gymnast uses when performing exercises on a pommel horse
  2. an ornament in the shape of a ball on the hilt of a sword or dagger
  3. handgrip formed by the raised front part of a saddle
VERB
  1. strike, usually with the fist
    The pedestrians pummeled the demonstrators

How To Use pommel In A Sentence

  • These early swords usually had pommels and crossguards made up of layers of organic material such as wood, bone or horn; which were often sandwiched, embellished with, or even completely covered by, bronze, gold and silver.
  • Meanwhile it was a great day for England's gymnasts as Imogen Cairns took gold on the vault, Max Whitlock won silver on the pommels, and Reiss Beckford took silver on the floor. Commonwealth Games 2010 live blog: 7 October
  • His pommel horse routine takes barely a minute. Times, Sunday Times
  • Then if If you need to carry a lead rope it can be attached as shown or clipped to the ring close to the saddle pommel. Your First Horse - buying, feeding, caring
  • Bluetooth phone connectivity, power-adjustable front passenger seat, sapele pommele wood interior trim, interior accent lighting, 20-inch wheels and tires) $10,565; rear-seat entertainment system $1,295. SFGate: Top News Stories
  • Wei Dao hissed a command, and sword pommels began to hammer at the wall. The Veiled Dragon
  • After all, when you have eighty-four gold enamelled sword pommels, who's going to miss one? Staffordshire Hoard
  • But to be pommeled black and blue, with that plebeian instrument a fist -- pugh! Swallow Barn, or A Sojourn in the Old Dominion. In Two Volumes. Vol. II.
  • Trevor stood beside something that vaguely resembled the gym apparatus known as a pommel-horse, holding an object like a cross between a large hot water bottle and an elephant's trunk, he referred to as an "AV. Chrome Circle
  • In the place of wooden clubs with broken off arrowheads and sword points put in for spikes, they wielded battle axes or big two-handed swords with iron grey blades and small skulls ornamenting the pommels.
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