2. Noun. A beating. ¹
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Definition of Pummelling
1. pummel [v] - See also: pummel
Lexicographical Neighbors of Pummelling
Literary usage of Pummelling
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Tour in Tartan-land by Cuthbert Bede (1863)
"... Task—The Abbey's Vicissitudes—Fair Maiden Lilliard and her Stumps—Knox and
Knocks—Cromwell's pummelling—The Virgin's Statue Saved by a Miracle—Legend of ..."
2. A History of Nursing: The Evolution of Nursing Systems from the Earliest by Mary Adelaide Nutting, Lavinia L. Dock (1907)
"... and to drive him out by pummelling, squeezing, beating, and starving; by
hideous noises, evil smells, and nauseous doses; or he persuades it to go into ..."
3. The Novelist's Magazine (1782)
"... our lot hath been nothing but cud- ' gelling upon cudgelling, pummelling '
upon pummelling ; except the advan- ' tage I have had over your ..."
4. Fencing by Walter Herries Pollock (1897)
"Even ' pummelling' an adversary, which is not an uncommon practice, is almost
always reserved for occasions when he is down, and when, according to true ..."
5. Fencing by Walter Herries Pollock, F. C. Grove, Camille Prevost (1893)
"Even ' pummelling' an adversary, which is not an uncommon practice, is almost
always reserved for occasions when he is down, and when, according to true ..."
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