pommel
noun
a knob, as on the hilt of a sword.
pommelling
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present participleof pommel.present participle
A verb form that is used in progressive verb constructions and may also function as a modifier or a gerund.
Example Sentences
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"Now you let her alone!" shouted Willie; and the next moment the two boys were rolling over on the piazza, pommelling each other, half in play, half in earnest.
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 11, No. 65, March, 1863 by Various
His will-power grows by a species of pommelling; not by the higher tactics of wrestling.
From The Gates Between by Elizabeth Stuart Phelps
The beginning of my Roman history was spent in the asylum, or conversing in Egeria's hallowed grove; not in thumping and pommelling king Amulius's herdsmen.
From The Letters of Horace Walpole, Earl of Orford — Volume 1 by Peter Cunningham
“He's afraid,” said the boy who had advised the more severe pommelling, “old 'fraid-cat!”
From Five Little Peppers at School by Hermann Heyer
Dick was stunned for a moment, and lay quite still, so the deer left off pommelling him, and stood looking at him.
From The Dog Crusoe and his Master by R. M. (Robert Michael) Ballantyne
