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pummel

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The Collaborative International Dictionary Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Pommel \Pom"mel\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Pommeled or Pommelled ; p. pr. & vb. n. Pommeling or Pommelling .] To beat soundly, as with the pommel of a sword, or with something knoblike; hence, to beat with the fists. [Written also pummel .]

WordNet Word definitions in WordNet
v. strike, usually with the fist; "The pedestrians pummeled the demonstrators" [syn: pommel , biff ] [also: pummelling , pummelled ]

Wikipedia Word definitions in Wikipedia
PUMMEL! (Pick Up Multigenre Miniatures, Easy to Learn) is a miniatures wargame rules system created by Polymancer Studios, publisher of Polymancer magazine and Polyglot . PUMMEL! was first published in 2006.

Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
verb EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES ▪ Ali leaned against the ropes and allowed Foreman to pummel him. ▪ On Saturday, Penn State pummeled Arizona 54-0. EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ Ali shocked his trainers and the sports world by leaning against the ropes and allowing ...

Usage examples of pummel.

Music of War roared and pummeled every aural sensory receptor, and moved the allied fleets forward with grim determination.

The ellipsoidal fireball continued its pummeling fire until finally the warglobe shattered, and its wreckage tumbled into the thick canopy.

I pummeled him with one clenched fist, grabbed his sandy wiry hair with my other hand and banged away at him.

But it proved to be a vigorous rubbing and pummeling and kneading of my entire body, more energetically done than the hammam rubbing, and with the intent not of extruding dirt from the skin, but of exercising every part in a manner to make one feel even healthier and more invigorated than a hammam bath can do.

His remaining partner offered Drozd his backup regulator, but Drozd, knife still in hand, slashed wildly at the man, his mind spraying in a million directions, his narcosis pummeling.

Luis handled another page: An artillery barrage followed the planes, conventional artillery was joined by Nebelwerfer rocket batteries to pummel and unnerve the Soviet advance positions.

Gratification pummeled him in waves, swelling sensitive flesh until he could count each heartbeat in the hardness that strained the placket of his jeans with each separate surge of blood.

Major Minim remained in the pugilistic comedy act with Ali Baba, though still grumbling and even, during the performance, trying really to pummel the boy.

His riata was wound around the pummel of my saddle, and so, as he went by he dragged me from my horse and the two animals traveled briskly on without me.

Several of the Damantas grappled with him, pummeling his face, head and neck with their gauntlets, driving their spiked sabatons into his stomach, his groin.

Gold felt the deck heave and lurch, and he knew another thermal upswell had pummeled his ship.

Bonneville, pummelling him with his fists, hustling him out of the hall, vociferating that Miss Hooven had been grossly insulted.

Calabria wheedling, remonstrating, cajoling and patronizing the new master by turns, now for his misguided notions of fairness in dealing with the striking miners, now for the uses of influence in getting ahead, breaking off for a highly theatrical interlude of mugging and arson and here came the playful glissando again as new comic possibilities emerged in the parade of petty thieves, rumpots, fugitives from wives and creditors and a brace of Chippewa Indians being cursorily questioned, pummeled, browbeaten, paid and fleeced as recruits for the Union army by the mine manager in his time away from raising stores of vermifuges, decorative sabres, trusses and mule feed cut with sand in the patriotic cause.

He woke to pain, and he tried to force himself back into that comforting womb darkness of death, but there were hands bulling and pummelling him, and the rough-barked timber rungs of the ladder cutting into his,flesh.

Their intention to pummel the obstreperous Klegl severely was forgotten as soon as they saw what had so unsettled him.