pommel

1. 1.

   strike, usually with the fist

   “The pedestrians pummeled the demonstrators”

   Synonymspummelbiff

   Broaderhit

Other forms of pommel

plural

pommels·

past tense or participle

pommelled

present participle

pommelling

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about pommel

What does pommel mean?

pommel means "a handgrip that a gymnast uses when performing exercises on a pommel horse". That is the primary sense; the word has 4 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in pommel?

pommel has 2 syllables: pom-mel. The stress falls on "pom". In IPA it is /ˈpɑməl/.

What is another word for pommel?

Close synonyms include saddlebow, knob, pummel, biff. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is pommel a common word?

pommel is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.