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Pommeling

Pommel \Pom"mel\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Pommeledor 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.]

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pommeling

alt. (present participle of pommel English) vb. (present participle of pommel English)

Usage examples of "pommeling".

Assume you — Frizer — are sitting wedged between Poley and Skeres and Marlowe is pommeling you about the head with the dagger's hilt.

When clumsy, ineffectual blows on my back and shoulder brought me around to find Gilbert pommeling me, I could see him but dimly and I hardly felt the contact when I shoved him aside.

As the man thrashed about wildly, punching and pommeling in his efforts to escape, there came the screech of brakes.

The man was blubbering and staring with sheeplike eyes at the lieutenant, who had seized him by the collar and was pommeling him.

The hand shakes, the heavy slaps on the back, and the pommeling he received at the hands of his intimate friends were as nothing compared to the anguish of mind he endured while they were kissing his wife.