pommel
Other forms: pommels; pommelled; pommelling; pommeling; pommeled
A pommel is the rounded knob on a horse's saddle that a rider grips with one hand. The raised front of the saddle itself can also be called a pommel.
Some saddles, particularly the modern western type, have a metal grip at the front, known either as a horn or a pommel. Other saddles don't have this knob, but instead have a raised front edge that's also called the pommel. When pommel is used as a verb, it means "beat or strike repeatedly," a variation on the word pummel. The Old French root is pomel, "rounded knob," from the Latin word pomum, or "apple."
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strike, usually with the fist
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handgrip formed by the raised front part of a saddle
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a handgrip that a gymnast uses when performing exercises on a pommel horse
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an ornament in the shape of a ball on the hilt of a sword or dagger
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synonyms:
knob
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type of:
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decoration, ornament, ornamentation
something used to beautify
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decoration, ornament, ornamentation
Vocabulary lists containing pommel
Molly the katt and Oscar the dogg belong to different families who hiss and growl at each other, but when they both get lost in the woods, they must stick together to get back to their camps safely.
Following the death of her uncle, sixteen-year-old Hattie Brooks travels to Montana to prove she can take care of her inherited land while dealing with anti-German sentiment during World War I.
In the late 19th century, a mysterious man comes to live and work on the Starrett's Wyoming farm.
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