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Definition of Pummel
1. Verb. Strike, usually with the fist. "The fighter managed to pummel his opponent"; "The pedestrians pummeled the demonstrators"
Definition of Pummel
1. n. & v. t. Same as Pommel.
Definition of Pummel
1. Verb. To hit or strike heavily and repeatedly. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Pummel
1. to pommel [v -MELED, -MELING, -MELS or -MELLED, -MELLING, -MELS] - See also: pommel
Lexicographical Neighbors of Pummel
Literary usage of Pummel
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Horse: With a Treatise on Draught by William Youatt (1843)
"... parts of South America the trace is fixed to the pummel of the saddle, which
in its turn is well secured to the horse by saddle-girths, breast-straps, ..."
2. Hints on Horsemanship, to a Nephew and Niece; Or, Common Sense and Common by George Greenwood (1861)
"A side-saddle should have no right-hand pummel.—The leaping horn. ... The saddle
Leaping should have what is called a third pummel, or leaping- horn. horn. ..."
3. The Proceedings of the Iowa Academy of Science by Iowa Academy of Science (1902)
"SOUTHWEST WISCONSIN: La Crosse—pummel; LaCrosse, sandstone rock, tamarack
marsh—pummel; Galesville — pummel; Bloomingdale—Miss pummel and Miss King; ..."
4. The Californian Illustrated Magazine by Charles Frederick Holder, Edward James Livernash (1893)
"... if you wish, I will whisk you up the Sierra Madres on the Mt. Lowe railroad
and pummel you with California snowballs, 6000 feet above the Pacific. ..."
5. The Dublin University Magazine: A Literary and Political Journal (1834)
"Not grasp the pummel of the saddle ! îî hv, how the deuce, Lalouette 1 is a man
to stick on the brute's back ? " With your knef:s, to be sure, Mr. Craven ! ..."
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