What is "pommels"

Usage examples of "pommels".

The guards balked, reached for their pommels, took another look at the dangerous, scarred pair, and stepped aside.

Theido and Ronsard leaned heavily on the pommels of their saddles and surveyed the fortress in the fitful light of the new day.

Tine, if dusty and travel-stained, clothing and effects of their charges with unconcealed avarice, all the while fingering the well-honed blades of their battle-axes or hefting the short-hafted weapons where they lay, ready to hand, across their saddle pommels, sniggering and exchanging glances and terse comments in Umbrian or some such uncultured dialect.

Cerise strode into the firelight, hands on her sword and dagger pommels, ready for a fight or anything else.