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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

PUMMEL. [See Pommel.]

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

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

Merriam Webster's

verb (-meled; also -melled; -meling; also pummelling) Etymology: alteration of pommel Date: 1548 pound, beat

Oxford Reference Dictionary

v.tr. (pummelled, pummelling; US pummeled, pummeling) strike repeatedly esp. with the fist. Etymology: alt. f. POMMEL

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

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.]

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Pummel Pum"mel, n. & v. t. Same as Pommel.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

(pummels, pummelling, pummelled) Note: in AM, use 'pummeling', 'pummeled' If you pummel someone or something, you hit them many times using your fists. He trapped Conn in a corner and pummeled him ferociously for thirty seconds. VERB: V n

Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms

I. n. [Written also and preferably Pommel.] Knob, protuberant part, ball. II. v. a. [Written also and preferably Pommel.] Beat, strike, knock, hit, punch, whack, batter, belabor, bruise, thrash, flog, drub, bang, maul, thwack, thump, cudgel, baste.

Moby Thesaurus

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