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  • verb Simple past tense and past participle of pommel.

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Examples

  • The invaders, pushed and pommelled by dint of such audacity and hard hitting, were cooped up like sheep into narrower and narrower space.

    Hellenica 2007

  • Noah rose from the ground, and pommelled him behind.

    Oliver Twist 2007

  • Every man endeavoured to be the first in making his exit, the door and passage were blocked up; each individual was pommelled by the person that happened to be behind him.

    The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle 2004

  • Had Kim hinted this when she was a girl, he would have been pommelled to death that same evening by an elephant.

    Kim 2003

  • The barber cudgelled Sancho, and Sancho pommelled the barber; Don

    Don Quixote 2002

  • The gold-pommelled sword was still gripped in his single hand and his soul was fleeing for Limbo as Uroch, too, was slain fighting.

    The Bane of the Black Sword Moorcock, Michael, 1939- 1977

  • The gold-pommelled sword was still gripped in his single hand and his soul was fleeing for Limbo as Uroch, too, was slain fighting.

    The Bane of The Black Sword Moorcock, Michael, 1939- 1977

  • ` ` Good lad! see that you hit every one as you pommelled me; don't let any one escape.

    Taras Bulba and Other Tales 1952

  • And thus he cried, until Roland and Nathan seizing him by the shoulders, dragged him by main force from the Indian, who was found, when they came to examine the body afterwards, actually pommelled to death, the skull having been beaten in as with bludgeons.

    Nick of the Woods Robert M. Bird

  • Eustace instantly let go, and Peter stood for a second staring down at the two red rings round his wrists, then, as Eustace turned unconcernedly away, dashed at his back and pommelled it.

    Queensland Cousins Eleanor Luisa Haverfield

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