pommel

Ward sat seventh after the floor exercise, but streaked into the lead after a splendid performance on the pommel - routinely his strongest event.

From BBC ● Jul. 26, 2026

A European, World, Commonwealth and Olympic champion on the pommel horse, he is undeniably one of the sport's greats, but we've been warned to expect 'Rhys 2.0' in Glasgow.

From BBC ● Jul. 22, 2026

McClenaghan, who triumphed on the pommel horse in Paris, said it was "a huge honour".

From BBC ● Dec. 29, 2025

Nedoroscik secured his second bronze medal in the individual pommel horse final on Aug. 3.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 22, 2024

It made a few protesting shudders, as he pressed down with both hands on the pommel of the sword.

From "The Once and Future King" by T. H. White

In the team finals however, a nightmarish set on pommels sent the Americans tumbling to fifth.

From Seattle Times ● Aug. 25, 2023

Hilts and pommels were and are the most common decoration, for dragonglass is too brittle to make a useful crossguard.

From Time ● Jul. 17, 2017

The 1996 Olympic pommel horse champion Donghua Li performed a surprisingly moving routine to pommels attached to the balance beam.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 17, 2016

The 7th Century hoard of 1,600 items including sword pommels, helmet parts and processional crosses was valued at £3.285m.

From BBC ● Jan. 2, 2015

They hand their burdens to others while they mount, then take the sacks again and loop them over the pommels of their saddles.

From "Tiger, Tiger" by Lynne Reid Banks

In the attempt, My Philadelphia Father got pommeled and knocked about like one of Biddle's sparring partners, and Biddle himself at times got kept out of sight in his corner.

From Time Magazine Archive

Illinois pommeled Northwestern, 7-6; Minnesota bewildered Iowa, 38-0.

From Time Magazine Archive

David cried, pleaded, pommeled the Phoenix with his fists.

From David and the Phoenix by Joan Raysor

Bud and Mel had the advantage of surprise, and soon pommeled and grappled their foes into submission.

From Tom Swift and the Electronic Hydrolung by Charles Brey

And after I had pommeled off the two pounds she'd gained at a twelve-course dinner the night before, she begins to tell me of her charities.

From The Shadow by Mary White Ovington

A capital dinner was served for him on the middle deck, and the dog was rolled about and pommelled till he came to life again.

From From Pole to Pole A Book for Young People by Sven Anders Hedin

The Loco-Focos, thus hemmed in between two fires, were gloriously pommelled for about five minutes.

From The International Monthly, Volume 5, No. 3, March, 1852 by Various

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.

From The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle by T. (Tobias) Smollett

All the more reason for bringing the undertaking to a swift conclusion: wherefore I pommelled and spurred my hapless steed along with a ruthlessness of which at any other time I should be heartily ashamed.

From A Veldt Vendetta by Bertram Mitford

Shrouded in earth-coloured garments, they shrieked, strove, rang their bells, kicked their donkeys, elbowed their rivals, pommelled their camels, recited the Koran, or testified with frenzy, the terrific honesty of all their dealings.

From Bye-Ways by Robert Smythe Hichens

Old friends and allies did their best to save Britain this final pommeling.

From Time Magazine Archive

“In my castle,” says Joinville, “whosoever uses bad language receives a good pommeling, and this has nearly put down that bad habit.”

From Chips From A German Workshop. Vol. III. Essays on Literature, Biography, and Antiquities by F. Max (Friedrich Max) Müller

Charity rewarded his chivalrous pommeling of Cheever by asking him never to come near her again.

From We Can't Have Everything by Rupert Hughes

"A generous fellow plays for the play, a sordid one for the stake; an old fogy sits by and smokes the pipe of tranquillity, while Jack and Tom are pommeling each other in the ring."

From The History of Pendennis, Volume 2 His Fortunes and Misfortunes, His Friends and His Greatest Enemy by William Makepeace Thackeray

He caught the subway with the crowd of stockbrokers who came romping out of the stock exchange like released schoolboys after the day's tension, pommeling and shoving each other with released glee.

From Making Money by Owen Johnson

Upon recovering from the effects of my pommelling, I sprang from bed and donned my clothes with all speed, and then went to pay my friend Mr Wilson the compliments of the season.

From Hudson Bay by R. M. (Robert Michael) Ballantyne

Dick was stunned for a moment, and lay quite still, so the deer left off pommelling him, and stood looking at him.

From The Dog Crusoe and his Master by R. M. (Robert Michael) Ballantyne

His will-power grows by a species of pommelling; not by the higher tactics of wrestling.

From The Gates Between by Elizabeth Stuart Phelps

In this kind of moral pommelling which sensitive women feel—as they do—how could I have indulged!

From The Gates Between by Elizabeth Stuart Phelps

The beginning of my Roman history was spent in the asylum, or conversing in Egeria's hallowed grove; not in thumping and pommelling king Amulius's herdsmen.

From The Letters of Horace Walpole, Earl of Orford — Volume 1 by Peter Cunningham