(v. t.) To separate from the awns; -- said of barley.
(a.) Having no awns or no horns; as, hummelcorn; a hummel cow.
Example Sentences:
(1) They too will almost certainly play a 4-2-3-1, with Messrs Piszczek, Subotic, Hummels and Schmeizer lining up from right to left in front of goalkeeper Roman Weidenfeller.
(2) Updated at 8.36pm BST 8.22pm BST 35 min: Another long ball towards Ronaldo is cut out, this time by Hummels.
(3) Most of the team is about 25,” said the defender Mats Hummels of a side that put 11 goals past Portugal and Brazil and also overcame France and Argentina.
(4) Updated at 8.23pm BST 8.04pm BST Brazil v Germany - line-ups ... Brazil: 12-Julio Cesar; 6-Marcelo, 23-Maicon, 13-Dante, 4-David Luiz; 17-Luiz Gustavo, 5-Fernandinho, 20-Bernard, 11-Oscar, 7-Hulk; 9-Fred Germany: 1-Manuel Neuer; 16-Philipp Lahm; 20-Jerome Boateng; 5-Mats Hummels; 4-Benedikt Hoewedes; 7-Bastian Schweinsteiger; 6-Sami Khedira; 18-Toni Kroos; 8-Mesut Ozil; 13-Thomas Mueller, 11-Miroslav Klose Referee: Marco Rodriguez (Mexico) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Share Share this post Facebook Twitter Pinterest close Meet Marco Rodriguez, tonight's referee.
(5) Borussia Dortmund’s Mats Hummels is his current No1 choice.
(6) Moments earlier Vermeer came out of his goal to put off Lewandowski after a great long ball from Hummels.
(7) Benzema was denied by another Hummels block and Blaise Matuidi had a shot saved by Neuer.
(8) Sample, M. Hummel, D. Braun, M. Birkenbach, and E. Kieff, Proc.
(9) Louis van Gaal has been given the green light to pursue Mats Hummels after Borussia Dortmund admitted the Manchester United manager’s prime defensive target is for sale in the close season.
(10) It’s a crucial period.” Van Gaal, who has been in regular contact with the United executive during the World Cup, will step up his efforts to strengthen the squad next week, with Borussia Dortmund’s Mats Hummels, Real Madrid’s Ángel Di María and Juventus’s Arturo Vidal high on his list of priorities .
(11) Mats Hummels, the Dortmund defender, said: "The game was really close and its very disappointing for us.
(12) The Dutchman is targeting Roma’s Kevin Strootman, who would cost around £30m, Borussia Dortmund’s Mats Hummels who may be priced up to £35m, Atlético Madrid’s Diego Godín – in the region of £25m – Barcelona’s Dani Alves, for around £15m, and may potentially move for Arjen Robben, with the Bayern Munich winger costing no less than £40m.
(13) Hummels, who is now 25 and could cost up to £30m, was then at Bayern Munich, having joined as a six-year-old when his father moved from Bergisch Gladbach – his birthplace – to became a youth team coach at “club Hollywood”.
(14) Capacity of the resulting cation-free peptide to bind Ca++, Mg++, Na+ and K+ was examined with the method of Hummel and Dreyer (Biochim.
(15) Borussia Dortmund’s Mats Hummels, Roma’s Kevin Strootman, Southampton’s Nathaniel Clyne and Barcelona’s Dani Alves would all do very nicely.
(16) Six members of that team started against Brazil: Manuel Neuer, Benedikt Höwedes, Mats Hummels, Jérôme Boateng, Sami Khedira and Mesut Özil.
(17) Yet the world champions are still short on goalscorers and, as Mats Hummels suggested before the game, there are probably more players in the current squad who want to assist rather than put the ball in the net.
(18) The prime potential acquisitions include Bayern Munich's Arjen Robben, who does not take his place in Holland's squad until after Saturday's German Cup final, the winger's club team-mate Thomas Müller, an attacking midfielder, and the Borussia Dortmund central defender, Mats Hummels.
(19) On Boxing Day in 2006, Old Trafford was the destination for Hummels who, along with a friend, was sent by his father, Hermann, to watch Sir Alex Ferguson’s team take on Wigan Athletic as a gift to mark his birthday of 10 days before.
(20) "You are so right about Hummels, Paul," agrees wise Barry Praag.
Pummel
Definition:
(n. & v. t.) Same as Pommel.
Example Sentences:
(1) We would be prevented from doing so; we are prevented from doing so.” Describing the situation as agonising, she said: “Whether you are a Syrian NGO [non-governmental organisation] on the frontline in eastern Aleppo being bombed into oblivion, or a UN worker sitting in Damascus or accompanying convoys across conflict lines, we are all really taking risks and being mentally pummelled by some of the positions in which we are put.” The deteriorating situation in Syria and continual bombardment of eastern Aleppo has raised the political stakes to new heights in recent days, with Russia being directly and repeatedly accused of war crimes because of its support for Syria’s president, Bashar al-Assad.
(2) This is why, you see, people with rucksacks pummel all those in their immediate vicinity with their giant sacks as they trundle on their way, whacking them about as they blithely move about trains, pavements or any other public area.
(3) This is the first time Murray's put any real pressure on Federer's ser... oh, wait, 30-all, a pummelling forehand down the line from Federer.
(4) This weekend the very accomplished Rona Fairhead, former FT chief executive and now the government’s choice to be the new chair of the BBC Trust, was described namelessly in a Telegraph headline as “mother of three.” It was decidedly reminiscent of that Sunday Times front page headline in April, “Grandmother, 71, tackles slave traffickers for the Pope” , sparking condescending mental images of a sweet little ol’ granny pummelling evil-doers with her cane.
(5) The collapse of the timber industry is what has “really pummelled” eastern Oregon.
(6) Figures from the Office for National Statistics released on Thursday revealed a 0.4% fall in sales volumes in November, heaping more pressure on the high street which is already being pummelled by the squeeze in spending.
(7) Brennan said the administration was aiming to "pummel the rest of al-Qaida" after US intelligence officers discovered unpublished statements produced by Bin Laden amid "a treasure trove" of computer hard drives, CDs, DVDs and papers seized from his safe house in Pakistan.
(8) Better to blockade and pummel from afar, if the sanctity of human life is not a concern.
(9) It could be said that Michael Carrick's reputation was pummelled but he was abandoned almost entirely by ineffectual colleagues such as Anderson.
(10) 3.34pm BST Back in the eurozone crisis, and our correspondent in Dublin, Henry McDonald, flags up that recession-pummeled Ireland is one of the most expensive countries on earth.
(11) Zimmerman, 28, was freed without charge after the killing on 26 February, saying afterward that he had shot Martin in self-defence and alleging the youth had pummelled his head on to a concrete pavement.
(12) Florida has one of the highest rates of foreclosures on its homes, and though Celebration has been less pummelled than many of the state's towns, it is still hurting.
(13) The visitors had been defending just before the interval when Stephen Ireland intercepted and fed Adam, the Scot meandering to the edge of the centre-circle inside his own half before pummelling a shot so optimistic it initially felt like a clearance into touch to grant his team-mates a breather.
(14) I had managed to avoid being pummelled by security guards during a protest against the M3 extension through Twyford Down , near Winchester, but got home to find a strange, tender patch on my knee.
(15) Enough, it is hoped, to not only make a dent in the debt but send a convincing message to the markets that have pummelled Athens since the onset of the crisis 18 months ago.
(16) When the US pummels countries with bombs, such apologists would never dream of denying civilian casualties.
(17) The sequence at the ‘flirty’ brunch hangout, a low point in the whole movie, feels horribly backward, like the kind of thing you might expect to find in the 1980 Al Pacino film Cruising .” He added: “There are ways to use homophobia in comic contexts which riff and evolve and wind up transcending it... Get Hard doesn’t dare get anywhere near this territory – it keeps pummelling you with the most regressive and fearful view of gay sex possible.” The criticisms have prompted the cast and crew of Get Hard this week to jump to the defence of the film.
(18) Eubank Jr pummels a heavy bag while his sister, Emily, crouches down and photographs him at work.
(19) Pacific nations beg for help for islanders when 'calamity' of climate change hits Read more In March, Tuvalu was pummelled by Cyclone Pam , which washed huge waves over the atolls and ripped apart buildings with 350kmph winds.
(20) He said this also supported the account of a witness who said he saw Martin "straddling Zimmerman mixed-martial arts style" and pummeling him until the older man was able to get his gun out.