POMMEL (pommelled, pommelling)

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Irregular inflected forms: pommelled    , pommelling   

 Dictionary entry overview: What does pommel mean? 

• POMMEL (noun)
  The noun POMMEL has 3 senses:

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

3. an ornament in the shape of a ball on the hilt of a sword or dagger

  Familiarity information: POMMEL used as a noun is uncommon.

• POMMEL (verb)
  The verb POMMEL has 1 sense:

1. strike, usually with the fist

  Familiarity information: POMMEL used as a verb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• POMMEL (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A handgrip that a gymnast uses when performing exercises on a pommel horse

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Hypernyms ("pommel" is a kind of...):

grip; handgrip; handle; hold (the appendage to an object that is designed to be held in order to use or move it)

Holonyms ("pommel" is a part of...):

pommel horse; side horse (a gymnastic horse with a cylindrical body covered with leather and two upright handles (pommels) near the center; held upright by two steel supports, one at each end)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Handgrip formed by the raised front part of a saddle

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Synonyms:

pommel; saddlebow

Hypernyms ("pommel" is a kind of...):

grip; handgrip; handle; hold (the appendage to an object that is designed to be held in order to use or move it)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "pommel"):

horn; saddle horn (a high pommel of a Western saddle (usually metal covered with leather))

Holonyms ("pommel" is a part of...):

saddle (a seat for the rider of a horse or other animal)

Sense 3

Meaning:

An ornament in the shape of a ball on the hilt of a sword or dagger

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Synonyms:

knob; pommel

Hypernyms ("pommel" is a kind of...):

decoration; ornament; ornamentation (something used to beautify)

Holonyms ("pommel" is a part of...):

hilt (the handle of a sword or dagger)

• POMMEL (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they pommel    ... he / she / it pommels   
Past simple: pommeled    / pommelled   
Past participle: pommeled    / pommelled   
-ing form: pommeling    / pommelling   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Strike, usually with the fist

Classified under:

Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging

Synonyms:

biff; pommel; pummel

Context example:

The pedestrians pummeled the demonstrators

Hypernyms (to "pommel" is one way to...):

hit (deal a blow to, either with the hand or with an instrument)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s somebody

Sentence example:

The fighter managed to pommel his opponent

 Context examples 

For a time Sir Nigel was very moody and downcast, with bent brows and eyes upon the pommel of his saddle.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Alleyne, on the other hand, must trust for his defence to his quick eye and active foot—for his sword, though keen as a whetstone could make it, was of a light and graceful build with a narrow, sloping pommel and a tapering steel.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The rider was a stern-faced man, hard of mouth and dry of eye, with a heavy sword clanking at his side, and a stiff white bundle swathed in linen balanced across the pommel of his saddle.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)