pommel
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: hobbies
lifestyle
sports
Etymology: From Middle English pomel, from Old French pomel and Medieval Latin pomellum, pumellum, presumedly via Vulgar Latin *pomellum (“ball, knob”), the diminutive of Late Latin pōmum (“apple”). Compare French pommeau, Spanish pomo, and Swedish pumla.
Inflected forms:
form: pommels
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: pummel
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: pommels
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: pommeling
pos: verb
tags: US
participle
present
form: pommelling
pos: verb
tags: UK
participle
present
form: pommeled
pos: verb
tags: US
participle
past
form: pommeled
pos: verb
tags: US
past
form: pommelled
pos: verb
tags: UK
participle
past
form: pommelled
pos: verb
tags: UK
past
form: pummel
pos: verb
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: The upper front brow of a saddle.
pos: noun
examples: But, if it does so sit, it is plain that the pommel must rise sufficiently to secure the withers from pressure; therefore it follows, that a horse whose withers are higher than common, (a well-built hunter for example,) requires a pommel higher by so much as he excels the generality of horses.
In the shoulder saddle, pommel and cantle are inclined toward each other at the bottom and away from each other at the top.
An owner fits four fingers underneath the saddle's pommel, testing the fit of the saddle.
gloss: A rounded knob or handle.
pos: noun
examples: The pommels, of which two sets must be provided, fit into these incisions.
Men use the pommels on the horse for side horse competition, and remove them for long horse vaulting. Women originally used the side horse with the pommels, but later the pommels were removed.
Jahn is credited with introducing the parallel bars, the horizontal bar, the side horse with pommels, and the vaulting buck.
gloss: A rounded knob or handle.
pos: noun
examples: The pommel is either a cone of metal or a crutch with a whorl ending either arm.
Pommel bilobed, overlaid with four acanthus leaves, and provided with small button-shaped eminences at tips of lobes and at apex.
There is a possibility that pommel was only decorated on the occasion of his coronation in 1209 but I take as more probably that complete pommel was made at that time and added to the tang of a blade, which is undoubtedly earlier.
gloss: A rounded knob or handle.
pos: noun
examples: One fragment of pillar had a pommel finial with a mortise, indicating that it once held a metal object, perhaps a cross.
Yet each community had a turning (pommel or finial) at the top of the post whose shape distinguished it from the work of other communities. At New Lebanon, the decorative pommel varied little over the years.
Five or six years after Mèlusine had departed, there began to appear, on the last day of August, a great hand that removed the pommel from the Poitevin Tower and pulled at it so strongly that it broke a great part of the roof.
gloss: The bat used in the game of knurr and spell or trap ball.
pos: noun
tags: obsolete
examples: The player, armed with a pommel, stands from two to three feet from the spell, places a knur in the cup which is held down by the rack.
The commonest method of playing the game, by the smaller boys of the village, was with a "sendstick," or pommel, and a wooden spell with a hole in one end to place the knur, which, when struck "tip-cat" like at the other end, threw the knur up to be struck at.
Next, the spring of the spell, at the end of which is a small brass cup to hold the knur, is adjusted by thumbscrews, so that when released by a touch of the pommel on the trigger, it will toss the knur a distance of six feet forward.
gloss: To pound or beat.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: The scaling him with chairs for ladders to dive into his pockets, despoil him of brown-paper parcels, hold on tight by his cravat, hug him round his neck, pommel his back, and kick his legs in irrepressible affection!
I will not say as schoolboys do to bullies—Take some one of your own size; don’t pommel me! No, ye’ve knocked me down, and I am up again; but ye have run and hidden.
I began to fight him, pommeling him with my fists, screaming at him, all the while he was yelling, “Dani, it's me, Dani, it's your brother. It's Yoram.”
Derived words: pommeler
pommel foot
pommel horse
pommel slicker
Translations:
lang: Czech
word: hruška
lang: Dutch
word: pommel
lang: Finnish
word: nuppi
lang: German
word: Knauf
lang: Hungarian
word: gomb
lang: Macedonian
word: јаболчица
roman: jabolčica
lang: Portuguese
word: castão
lang: Spanish
word: pomo
lang: Swedish
word: greppknopp