(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.
Sword
Definition:
(n.) An offensive weapon, having a long and usually sharp/pointed blade with a cutting edge or edges. It is the general term, including the small sword, rapier, saber, scimiter, and many other varieties.
(n.) Hence, the emblem of judicial vengeance or punishment, or of authority and power.
(n.) Destruction by the sword, or in battle; war; dissension.
(n.) The military power of a country.
(n.) One of the end bars by which the lay of a hand loom is suspended.
Example Sentences:
(1) Everyone is expecting them to win and I think that’s a double-edged sword.
(2) Snipers fired from rooftops, and plainclothes Saleh supporters armed with automatic rifles, swords and batons attacked the protesters.
(3) The Broken King by Philip Womack Photograph: Troika Books The Sword in the Stone begins with Wart on a "quest" to find a tutor.
(4) In his book Swords and Ploughshares, Ashdown gives us two insights.
(5) Its sword-shaped columns tower up almost 100 feet, and grey concrete walls careen around its nearly half-mile circumference.
(6) This was a double-edged sword, for the futebol nation has displayed both the successes of the era and its limits.
(7) His charge sheet includes numerous assaults (one against a waiter who served him the wrong dish of artichokes); jail time for libelling a fellow painter, Giovanni Baglione, by posting poems around Rome accusing him of plagiarism and calling him Giovanni Coglione (“Johnny Bollocks”); affray (a police report records Caravaggio’s response when asked how he came by a wound: “I wounded myself with my own sword when I fell down these stairs.
(8) In a sign that Fox's decision to fall on his sword will not mark the end of the furore engulfing the Tories, both Liberal Democrat and Labour politicians stepped up their demands for the prime minister to explain why several senior members of his cabinet were involved in an Anglo-American organisation apparently at odds with his party's environmental commitments and pledge to defend free healthcare.
(9) If so, ministers may need to be prepared for a new breed of civil servants, who will no longer fall on their swords if they believe they have been stabbed in the back.
(10) This paper will give evidence of the exact wounds that Pizarro received in his final sword fight, as well as a facial sculpture of the skull now identified as that of the conqueror of Peru.
(11) Algeria deserved a better fate than an exit which inevitably will leave big regrets that they missed out on something monumental or unreal, but the national team left the Brazilian World Cup with sword in hand and head high.” In Germany most of the media were just thankful they had progressed.
(12) When you play music like that, it’s like being attacked with knives and swords,” he said.
(13) On the surface of course one can hardly blame them, given the difference in resources on either side – imagine, if you will, how much Arjen Robben or Van Persie would’ve enjoyed themselves had they played an open and adventurous system with designs on putting the Dutch to the sword.
(14) The European Union and the International Monetary Fund had handed enormous power to the Greeks, Parsons argued, just as Theseus handed power to Hippolyta by agreeing to lay down his sword.
(15) Long-term problems remain for new buyers looking to leave the rental market, and Funding for Lending is proving a double-edged sword.
(16) In the end the paper-clip turned out to be mightier than the sword.
(17) We really didn’t want to vote for it, but we made a mistake and now we’re trying to do what’s right and correct it.” But their letter also said while the intent of their vote “was to create a shield for all citizens’ religious liberties, the bill has been mischaracterized by its opponents as a sword for religious intolerance”.
(18) Police were ordered to apologise in person last year to an elderly blind man who was shot with a Taser electronic weapon after they mistook his white stick for a samurai sword.
(19) In subsequent years, armed with his trusty sword, Excalibur (a superannuated prop from John Boorman 's film of the same name), he persistently challenged the law against assembling at Stonehenge, while the site itself grew increasingly to resemble one of the military encampments on nearby Salisbury Plain.
(20) Swords IV was made by professional film-makers, al-Janabi also claims – and independent observers think he might be right.