(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.
Weapon
Definition:
(n.) An instrument of offensive of defensive combat; something to fight with; anything used, or designed to be used, in destroying, defeating, or injuring an enemy, as a gun, a sword, etc.
(n.) Fig.: The means or instrument with which one contends against another; as, argument was his only weapon.
(n.) A thorn, prickle, or sting with which many plants are furnished.
Example Sentences:
(1) One hundred and twenty-seven states have said with common voice that their security is directly threatened by the 15,000 nuclear weapons that exist in the arsenals of nine countries, and they are demanding that these weapons be prohibited and abolished.
(2) True, Syria subsequently disarmed itself of chemical weapons, but this was after the climbdown on bombing had shown western public opinion had no appetite for another war of choice.
(3) Terrorist groups need to be tackled at root, interdicting flows of weapons and finance, exposing the shallowness of their claims, channelling their followers into democratic politics.
(4) China's relations with the NTC were strained last week when it emerged Chinese arms firms had talked to Muammar Gaddafi's representatives about weapons sales .
(5) The weapon is 13 metres long, weighs 60 tonnes and can carry nuclear warheads with up to eight times the destructive capacity of the bombs that hit Hiroshima and Nagasaki in the second world war.
(6) Types of weapons involved included handguns (48%), shotguns (22%), rifles (17%), unspecified weapon (12%), and air rifle (1%).
(7) These steps signify a willingness for engagement not seen before, but they have been overshadowed by the "nuclear crisis" triggered in October 2002 when Pyongyang admitted to having the "know-how", but not the technology, for a highly enriched uranium route to nuclear weapons.
(8) The UN secretary general, Ban Ki-moon, a former South Korean foreign minister, said the resolution "sent an unequivocal message to [North Korea] that the international community will not tolerate its pursuit of nuclear weapons."
(9) It paves the way for Iran to get nuclear weapons.” Under the deal, Iran committed to reducing the number of its centrifuges by two-thirds, capping its level of uranium enrichment well below the level needed for bomb-grade material, reducing its enriched uranium stockpile from around 10,000kg to 300kg for 15 years, and submitting to international inspections to verify its compliance.
(10) He was indicted on weapons charges and accused of plotting robberies and the assassination of the Southern Poverty Law Center’s founder.
(11) Even a Scrabble board is used as a weapon in our show.
(12) The most efficient weapon against cancer is early diagnosis.
(13) BUSH ON IRAQ TONIGHT: Mr President, if I can move on to the question of Iraq, when we last spoke before the Iraq war, I asked you about Saddam Hussein and you said this, and I quote: "He harbours and develops weapons of mass destruction, make no mistake about it."
(14) The Met said officers would be told to focus less on stopping people for small amounts of cannabis, and instead focus on those suspected of violent offences and carrying weapons.
(15) And an increasing number of critics say that no nuclear weapon would be a credible deterrent in any counter-terrorist operation British forces will be engaged in for the foreseeable future.
(16) Waco, Texas, will forever be known for the siege that began in February 1993 when agents of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms raided a compound owned by the Branch Davidian religious sect to investigate allegations of weapons hoarding.
(17) Six major Saudi-led coalition attacks in Yemen in 2016 – timeline Read more Asked by the Guardian about the figures during a visit to London, the Saudi foreign minister, Adel bin Ahmed al-Jubeir, portrayed the Saudi air force as professional and armed with precision weapons.
(18) He saw a soldier aim his weapon’s laser sight at the al-Atrashes’ Volkswagen “like he was preparing to shoot”.
(19) Britain is being urged to halt the supply of weapons to its ally Saudi Arabia in the light of evidence that civilians are being killed in Saudi-led attacks on rebel forces in Yemen .
(20) Kerry warned a sceptical and sometimes raucous panel that failing to strike Syria would embolden al-Qaida and raise to 100% the chances that Assad would use chemical weapons again.