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Definition of Pommelling
1. pommel [v] - See also: pommel
Lexicographical Neighbors of Pommelling
Literary usage of Pommelling
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A New and Complete Treatise on the Arts of Tanning, Currying, and Leather by Hippolyte Dussauce (1865)
"JACOB PERKINS'S MACHINE FOR pommelling AND GRAINING LEATHER. Fig. 181, side view.
Fig. 182, front view. Fig. 183, plan. a. Framework held together by bolts ..."
2. The Celtic Magazine by Alexander Mackenzie, Alexander Macgregor, Alexander Macbain (1887)
"Even when one is expected to do the ghost a service, he begins, unless spoken
to, by what he considers some playful pommelling, or by a deadly wrestle. ..."
3. Behar Proverbs, Classified and Arranged According to Their Subject-matter by John Christian (1891)
"From a desire to imitate another she pretended to become a paragon of a wife :
but the end of it was that her poor husband got a pommelling. ..."
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