pommel
noun
a knob, as on the hilt of a sword.
pommeled
Example Sentences
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Illinois pommeled Northwestern, 7-6; Minnesota bewildered Iowa, 38-0.
From Time Magazine Archive
In the attempt, My Philadelphia Father got pommeled and knocked about like one of Biddle's sparring partners, and Biddle himself at times got kept out of sight in his corner.
From Time Magazine Archive
And after I had pommeled off the two pounds she'd gained at a twelve-course dinner the night before, she begins to tell me of her charities.
From The Shadow by Mary White Ovington
Then, indeed, they separated, thoroughly pommeled and frightened.
From Peter the Priest by Mór Jókai
David cried, pleaded, pommeled the Phoenix with his fists.
From David and the Phoenix by Joan Raysor
