(n.) A knob or ball; an object resembling a ball in form
(n.) The knob on the hilt of a sword.
(n.) The knob or protuberant part of a saddlebow.
(n.) The top (of the head).
(n.) A knob forming the finial of a turret or pavilion.
(v. t.) To beat soundly, as with the pommel of a sword, or with something knoblike; hence, to beat with the fists.
Example Sentences:
(1) A seating system for physically handicapped children has been devised in which a series of standard components (neck supports, rolled seats, pommels) can be incorporated to make a seating system appropriate for the individual child.
(2) Sceptics may scoff, and results of an attempt to extract DNA and match it to descendants are not due until Christmas, but Thompson is adamant that the bones now resting in a safe in the archaeology and ancient history department of Leicester University are those of the last Plantagenet, Richard III , who rode out of Leicester on the morning of 22 August 1485 a king, and came back a naked corpse slung over the pommel of a horse.
(3) However, many recordings displayed localized initial loading spikes which occurred during 'hard' landings on the pommel.
(4) Whitlock had qualified for the pommel final by a matter of decimal points, having tied for the eighth and last spot, and squeezed through on a tie-break.
(5) In order to study the forces of wrist impact, a standard pommel horse was instrumented with a specially designed load cell to record the resultant force of the hand on the pommel during a series of basic skills performed by a group of seventeen elite male gymnasts.
(6) The all-round, in which Britain won a bronze, most closely resembles modern gymnastics, as it involved exercises on separate pieces of apparatus:the horizontal bars, the parallel bars, the pommel horse and the Roman rings.
(7) It suggests the story that his naked corpse was brought back slung over the pommel of a horse, mocked and abused all the way, was true.
(8) Britain’s 112-year wait for a men’s gold medallist at the world gymnastics championships was ended when Max Whitlock narrowly edged out his team-mate Louis Smith with a silky display on the pommel horse on Saturday.
(9) Pearson has the puck all alone - he fires, save Lundqvist and then Pearson gets destroyed, pommelled into the boards by Anton Stralman!
(10) And after two years, when it was clear the policy was failing, the prime minister and Nick Clegg would hold a press conference by a pommel horse to explain that, however bad things got, at least we were doing better than Greece.
(11) Smith, all ebullience, set things in motion with a faultless performance on his speciality, the pommel horse.
(12) The pommel draw was set up perfectly for Smith, who took to the apparatus last.
(13) Better yet, they are all too focused on their careers to embarrass themselves by mucking around with older women and – on the off-chance that it would get tangled up in a pommel horse and cost them points – none of them are ever likely to grow silly Harry Styles haircuts.
(14) As he performed his first handstand his legs seemed to stretch to the heavens and with ineffable style and grace he completed one of the most consummate pommel displays the Olympic stage has seen.
(15) Whitlock, meanwhile, travelled across the pommel with such ease it seemed he must walk around daily on his hands.
(16) John Orozco, a star of American qualifying, did so twice, on the pommel horse and also on the vaulting mat, and in those two sedentary moments went his team's chances.
(17) Smith, who, after his stunning pommel routine, acted as cheerleader for the team, said he had been "keeping his eye on everything and knew we were within a couple of tenths by the end".
(18) The pommel horse routine was consistently responsible for wrist pain among the males.
(19) They could not have happened to a man protected by armour, and are consistent with the accounts of his body being stripped on the battlefield, and brought back to Leicester naked, slung over the pommel of a horse.
(20) Louis Smith upgraded his bronze at Beijing to a silver at the North Greenwich Arena on Sunday in a thrilling climax to the men's pommel horse final while his team-mate Max Whitlock took bronze.
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.