pommel

He goes on the floor and pommel on Monday, and is a real medal contender in the later.

From BBC ● Jul. 26, 2026

Conrad refers to one of the revelations of Floyd’s hidden abilities: “Can Hopper do the pommel horse?”

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 8, 2026

Conrad leans in confidentially: “I have been asked if that’s really Dave doing the pommel horse, and my answer is, ‘I don’t know.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 8, 2026

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

From BBC ● Dec. 29, 2025

Train Ear and Jelly Bones hopped over turnstiles like gymnasts vaulting a pommel horse.

From "Clayton Byrd Goes Underground" by Rita Williams-Garcia

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

The workmen, seeing the reinforcements, beat a retreat, carrying their sadly pommeled comrades with them, but their insulting language was not restricted until they had passed out of hearing.

From Aunt Jane's Nieces on Vacation by L. Frank (Lyman Frank) Baum

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

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

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

From Hellenica by Henry Graham Dakyns

The saddles for women differ in form, being furnished with the antlers of a deer, so as to resemble the high pommelled saddle of the Mexican ladies.

From Narrative of a Voyage to the Northwest Coast of America in the years 1811, 1812, 1813, and 1814 or the First American Settlement on the Pacific by Gabriel Franchere

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.

From Queensland Cousins by Eleanor Luisa Haverfield

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

He was shaken, pinched, and pommelled, but all to no purpose; his snores only became louder, and the style more fantastic.

From Soldiers of the Queen by Harold Avery

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

From Time Magazine Archive

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

"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

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

“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

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

A bag stuffed with hay is so round that it is very difficult to keep upon it without rolling off, and there was much pommelling and flattening before the beds were at all tenable.

From The Madcap of the School by Balliol Salmon

“He's afraid,” said the boy who had advised the more severe pommelling, “old 'fraid-cat!”

From Five Little Peppers at School by Hermann Heyer

"Now you let her alone!" shouted Willie; and the next moment the two boys were rolling over on the piazza, pommelling each other, half in play, half in earnest.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 11, No. 65, March, 1863 by Various

As the clenched fist likewise somewhat resembles an apple, perhaps that might occasion the term pommelling to be applied to fisty-cuffs.

From 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose