| Pommel 1. (v.) To pummel; or (n.) a knob or ball; as on a pommel horse. 2. (n.) The knob on the hilt of a sword. 3. (n.) The knob or protuberant part of a saddlebow. 4. (n.) The top (of the head). 5. (n.) A knob forming the finial of a turret or pavilion. 6. (v. t.) To beat soundly, as with the pommel of a sword, or with something knoblike; hence, to beat with the fists. Thesaurus Entries bang, baste, bastinado, batter, beat, belabor, bellyband, belt, birch, buffet, cane, cinch, club, cowhide, cudgel, cut, drub, flagellate, flail, flap, flog, fustigate, girt, girth, give a whipping, give the stick, hammer, horn, horsewhip, jockey, knock, knout, lace, lambaste, larrup, lash, lay on, maul, paste, patter, pelt, pistol-whip, pound, pulverize, pummel, rap, rawhide, scourge, sledgehammer, smite, spank, stirrup, strap, stripe, surcingle, swinge, switch, thrash, thresh, thump, trounce, truncheon, wallop, whale, whip, whop |