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Definition of Pummelled
1. pummel [v] - See also: pummel
Lexicographical Neighbors of Pummelled
Literary usage of Pummelled
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Wrongs and Rights of a Traveller: By Boat--by Stage--by Rail by Robert Vashon Rogers (1875)
"... view—The tea—Mine host responsible for losses— Kicking horses—Ferries and
ferrymen—Lien on travellers—A midnight hunt— Entomological—A man pummelled. ..."
2. Robert Montgomery and His Reviewers: With Some Remarks on the Present State by Edward Clarkson (1830)
"that a knockdown blow is masculine ; more especially when the pummelled person
remains neuter. The doctor may say with ' cudgelled Roper' in the Dunciad: ..."
3. A Portion of the Journal Kept by Thomas Raikes, Esq., from 1831 to 1847 by Thomas Raikes (1857)
"Oh," replied he, " it is very easily done. We pummelled them, they pummelled us,
and I suppose we pummelled the hardest, so we gained the day. ..."
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