pommel

The upper front brow of a saddle.

But, if it does so sit, it is plain that the pommel must rise sufficiently to secure the withers from pressure; therefore it follows, that a horse whose withers are higher than common, (a well-built hunter for example,) requires a pommel higher by so much as he excels the generality of horses.

In the shoulder saddle, pommel and cantle are inclined toward each other at the bottom and away from each other at the top.

A rounded knob or handle.

The pommels, of which two sets must be provided, fit into these incisions.

Men use the pommels on the horse for side horse competition, and remove them for long horse vaulting. Women originally used the side horse with the pommels, but later the pommels were removed.

A rounded knob or handle.

The pommel is either a cone of metal or a crutch with a whorl ending either arm.

Pommel bilobed, overlaid with four acanthus leaves, and provided with small button-shaped eminences at tips of lobes and at apex.

A rounded knob or handle.

One fragment of pillar had a pommel finial with a mortise, indicating that it once held a metal object, perhaps a cross.

Yet each community had a turning (pommel or finial) at the top of the post whose shape distinguished it from the work of other communities. At New Lebanon, the decorative pommel varied little over the years.

The bat used in the game of knurr and spell or trap ball.

The player, armed with a pommel, stands from two to three feet from the spell, places a knur in the cup which is held down by the rack.

The commonest method of playing the game, by the smaller boys of the village, was with a "sendstick," or pommel, and a wooden spell with a hole in one end to place the knur, which, when struck "tip-cat" like at the other end, threw the knur up to be struck at.

To pound or beat.

The scaling him with chairs for ladders to dive into his pockets, despoil him of brown-paper parcels, hold on tight by his cravat, hug him round his neck, pommel his back, and kick his legs in irrepressible affection!

I will not say as schoolboys do to bullies—Take some one of your own size; don’t pommel me! No, ye’ve knocked me down, and I am up again; but ye have run and hidden.