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Pomme [\N] Webster's Dictionary 1828

POMME

Pomme [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

2. The knob on the hilt of a sword; the protuberant part of a saddle-bow; the round knob on the frame of a chair, etc.

Pomme [Verb transitive] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. To beat as with a pommel, that is, with something thick or bulky; to bruise.

2. [The French se pommeler, to grow dapple, to curdle, is from the same source; but the sense is to make knobs or lumps, and hence to variegate, or make spots like knobs. The Welsh have from the same root, or pwmp, a mass, pwmpiaw, to form a round mass, and to thump, to bang, Eng. to bump.]

Pomme [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1913

Having the ends terminating in rounded protuberances or single balls; -- said of a cross.

Pomme blanche Webster's Dictionary 1913

The prairie turnip. See under Prairie.

Pommel [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. A knob or ball; an object resembling a ball in form

2. The knob on the hilt of a sword.

3. The knob or protuberant part of a saddlebow.

4. The top (of the head).

5. A knob forming the finial of a turret or pavilion.

Pommel [Verb transitive] Webster's Dictionary 1913

To beat soundly, as with the pommel of a sword, or with something knoblike; hence, to beat with the fists.