pummel

4 definitions found

pummel - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  Pommel \Pom"mel\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Pommeledor Pommelled;
     p. pr. & vb. n. Pommeling or Pommelling.]
     To beat soundly, as with the pommel of a sword, or with
     something knoblike; hence, to beat with the fists. [Written
     also pummel.]
     [1913 Webster]

  Pummel \Pum"mel\, n. & v. t.
     Same as Pommel.
     [1913 Webster]

pummel - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :

  pummel
      v 1: strike, usually with the fist; "The pedestrians pummeled
           the demonstrators" [syn: pummel, pommel, biff]

pummel - Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 :

  59 Moby Thesaurus words for "pummel":
     bang, baste, bastinado, batter, beat, belabor, belt, birch, buffet,
     cane, club, cowhide, cudgel, cut, drub, flagellate, flail, flap,
     flog, fustigate, give a whipping, give the stick, hammer, heat,
     horsewhip, knock, knout, lace, lambaste, larrup, lash, lay on,
     maul, paste, patter, pelt, pistol-whip, pommel, pound, pulverize,
     rap, rawhide, scourge, sledgehammer, smite, spank, strap, stripe,
     swinge, switch, thrash, thresh, thump, trounce, truncheon, wallop,
     whale, whip, whop