1) French word used in English 2) Grip 3) Handgrip 4) Handle 5) Hold 6) Kind of horse 7) Knob on a sword handle 8) Part of a horse 9) Part of a saddle 10) Saddle front 11) Saddle horn 12) Saddle knob 13) Saddlebow 14) Strike, usually with the fist 15) Sword-hilt knob 16) To pound or beat
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1) Knob 2) Pummel 3) Saddlebow
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- handgrip formed by the raised front part of a saddle
- an ornament in the shape of a ball on the hilt of a sword or dagger
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From the old French word for 'apple'. This fastener affixes the grip and guard to the tang of the blade. It has female threading, but the threaded hole does not go all the way through as is the case with a nut. It is screwed on to the distal end of the tang, locking guard, grip and electric connector is position by compression and friction. The pom...
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• (n.) A knob forming the finial of a turret or pavilion. • (n.) The knob on the hilt of a sword. • (n.) The top (of the head). • (v. t.) To beat soundly, as with the pommel of a sword, or with something knoblike; hence, to beat with the fists. • (n.) A knob or ball; an object resembling a ball in form • (n.) The knob ...
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Weight on the handle of a sword, used to balance the weapon and for striking ('Pummelling').
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(from the article `sword`) ...European Middle Ages the weapon had acquired its main basic forms. The heavy sword of medieval chivalry had a large hilt, often designed to be ...
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A knob or ball; an object resembling a ball in form; as: ... The knob on the hilt of a sword. ... The knob or protuberant part of a saddlebow. ... The top (of the head). ... A knob forming the finial of a turret or pavilion. ... Origin: OE. Pomel, OF. Pomel, F. Pommeau, LL. Pomellus, fr. L. Pomum fruit, LL. Also, an apple. See Pome. ... Source: Web...
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the large steel knob that counter-balanced the sword, and provide a secondary weapon in its own right. Pommels came in a variety of shapes: disks, balls, brazil-nuts, crescents, a sort of mushroom cap, etc., and changed in popularity as much with changes in fashion sense as martial usage
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See sword.
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Pom'mel noun [ Middle English
pomel , Old French
pomel , French
pommeau , Late Latin
pomellus , from Latin
pomum fruit, Late Latin also, an apple. See
Pome .] A knob or ball; an object resembling a ball in form ; as:
(a) The knob on the hilt of a swor...
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Pom'mel transitive verb [
imperfect & past participle Pommeled or
Pommelled ;
present participle & verbal noun Pommeling or
Pommelling .] To beat soundly, as with the pommel of a sword, or with something knoblike; hence, to ...
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The wide uplifted front of the saddle (forming the fork in the western saddle)
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a metal cap screwed to the end of the blade which locks the parts of the weapon together and provides a counter-balance to the blade
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[
n] - handgrip formed by the raised front part of a saddle
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[My Antonia] the rounded, upward-projecting front part of a saddle.
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a metal cap screwed to the end of the blade which locks the parts of the weapon together and provides a counter-balance to the blade
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saddlebow noun handgrip formed by the raised front part of a saddle
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The foremost section of a saddle that fits over the withers. In a Western saddle, this is the "horn" which the rider can rest his hands on.
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the front, top part of a saddle. The pommel of an English saddle is arched; that of a Western saddle bears a horn.
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a handgrip that a gymnast uses when performing exercises
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