Definition of Pummelling

1. Verb. (present participle of pummel) ¹

2. Noun. A beating. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Pummelling

1. pummel [v] - See also: pummel

Lexicographical Neighbors of Pummelling

pumicing
pumicite
pumicites
pumie
pumies
pummace
pummel
pummeled
pummeler
pummelers
pummeling
pummelings
pummelled
pummeller
pummellers
pummelling
pummellings
pummelo
pummelos
pummels
pump-and-dump scheme
pump-fake
pump-faked
pump-fakes
pump-faking
pump-jet
pump-jets
pump-type pliers
pump action

Literary usage of Pummelling

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. A Tour in Tartan-land by Cuthbert Bede (1863)
"... Task—The Abbey's Vicissitudes—Fair Maiden Lilliard and her Stumps—Knox and Knocks—Cromwell's Pummelling—The Virgin's Statue Saved by a Miracle—Legend of ..."

2. A History of Nursing: The Evolution of Nursing Systems from the Earliest by Mary Adelaide Nutting, Lavinia L. Dock (1907)
"... and to drive him out by pummelling, squeezing, beating, and starving; by hideous noises, evil smells, and nauseous doses; or he persuades it to go into ..."

3. The Novelist's Magazine (1782)
"... our lot hath been nothing but cud- ' gelling upon cudgelling, pummelling ' upon pummelling ; except the advan- ' tage I have had over your ..."

4. Fencing by Walter Herries Pollock (1897)
"Even ' pummelling' an adversary, which is not an uncommon practice, is almost always reserved for occasions when he is down, and when, according to true ..."

5. Fencing by Walter Herries Pollock, F. C. Grove, Camille Prevost (1893)
"Even ' pummelling' an adversary, which is not an uncommon practice, is almost always reserved for occasions when he is down, and when, according to true ..."

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