(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.
Turret
Definition:
(n.) A little tower, frequently a merely ornamental structure at one of the angles of a larger structure.
(n.) A movable building, of a square form, consisting of ten or even twenty stories and sometimes one hundred and twenty cubits high, usually moved on wheels, and employed in approaching a fortified place, for carrying soldiers, engines, ladders, casting bridges, and other necessaries.
(n.) A revolving tower constructed of thick iron plates, within which cannon are mounted. Turrets are used on vessels of war and on land.
(n.) The elevated central portion of the roof of a passenger car. Its sides are pierced for light and ventilation.
Example Sentences:
(1) The Christmas theme doesn't end there; "America's Christmas Hometown" also has Santa's Candy Castle, a red-brick building with turrets that was built by the Curtiss Candy Company in the 1930s and sells gourmet candy canes in abundance.
(2) You'll pedal through picture-perfect fishing villages, past medieval turreted towers and traverse Lahemaa, Estonia's first national park ( visitestonia.com ).
(3) There are palatial piles, puffed up confections of domes and turrets, alongside low-slung sheds, streamlined intersecting planes oozing the free flow of democracy.
(4) As the sun set over the cratered fields around Debaltseve, a group of pro-Russia Cossack fighters were retrieving boxes of anti-tank artillery rounds and two armoured vehicles left by Kiev’s forces on the side of the Rostov-Kharkiv highway, which was littered with mangled cars and turret-less tanks.
(5) In July 1965, he escaped from Wandsworth prison, "the hate factory" in south-west London, through the ingenious use of a rope ladder and a furniture lorry with a specially constructed turret that had been parked outside the jail.
(6) Accessible only on foot, the Needles section of the Canyonlands national park has pink and creamy turrets, chimneys, gullies, mysterious canyons and weird formations.
(7) The Turret nebuliser proved to be the most efficient, but several other brands would also be acceptable if used with a powerful compressor.
(8) A method of measuring the amount of slack inherent in the system of Edgewise brackets and archwires is presented, and some related problems concerning the use of turrets discussed.
(9) We started behind Helghast lines, at the top of a cliff, looking down on a forest in which a pall of smoke indicated a downed aircraft which we had to reach; another objective involved disabling anti-aircraft turrets.
(10) This new work was described by the author as "an evening of high drung and slarrit" which, "with its turrets and its high-jointed gables, should have a particular appeal for anyone approaching it for the first time with a lasso".
(11) Due to limitation of measuring diaphragm of turret in the microscope, some extra large cell could not be included in it and was excluded from the measurement.
(12) Britain’s previous prime minister was uneasy, a sentiment that was felt – it later turned out – all the way up to the highest turrets in the land.
(13) Ten years ago the National Trust bought the redbrick house studded with romantic details including turrets, stained glass, window seats, a miniature minstrels' gallery and a well, and opened it to the public for the first time.
(14) Our understanding of the daily realities for LGBT people in the UK does not emanate from a 14-year-old in Motherwell, or a still-closeted retiree in Penarth, but from metropolitan professionals depicting gay life from a turret of privilege.
(15) The highlights of AML major wartime projects are presented: development and production of breathing oxygen equipment, including pressure breathing for use above 50,000 ft; evaluation of insulative and electrically heated flying clothing, useful for confined cockpit space and for use at first in B-17 gun turrets; development and evaluation of anti-G suits for the new, high-performance, fighter aircraft; the role of anthropometry in design of aircraft cockpits and personal flying equipment; Laboratory tests of human tolerance to explosive decompression in new Air Force pressurized bombers (B-29) and future fighters (P-80 series), and actual flight tests in the Lockheed Constellation and Boeing C-97.
(16) Rats receiving milk from cows fed Turret RSM developed larger thyroid than those receiving milk from control-fed cows.
(17) Bunkrooms are bright and spacious, double rooms are available, and the fetching rooftop bar overlooks red-tiled roofs and Habsburg turrets.
(18) These differences may be ascribed partly to the smaller droplet size from the Turret system and partly to the higher nebulisation rate from the more powerful Maxi compressor.
(19) • Katie Mulgrew is at the Turret, Gilded Balloon, until 24 August.
(20) The site remains filled with gradually decaying Santa figurines, rusty reindeer rides and crumbling candy cane turrets, making it feel more eerie than festive.