pommel

pommel is a 6-letter English word with 10 senses as noun, transitive verb, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: A knob or ball; an object resembling a ball in form. Face value is 12 in Scrabble and 16 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

6 letters · Scrabble 12 · Words With Friends 16 · 10 senses

Definitions

1. noun. A knob or ball; an object resembling a ball in form
2. noun. The knob on the hilt of a sword.
3. noun. The knob or protuberant part of a saddlebow.
4. noun. The top (of the head).
5. noun. A knob forming the finial of a turret or pavilion.
6. transitive verb. To beat soundly, as with the pommel of a sword, or with something knoblike; hence, to beat with the fists.
7. noun. an ornament in the shape of a ball on the hilt of a sword or dagger

   Synonyms: knob

8. noun. handgrip formed by the raised front part of a saddle

   Synonyms: saddlebow

9. noun. a handgrip that a gymnast uses when performing exercises on a pommel horse
10. verb. strike, usually with the fist

    "The pedestrians pummeled the demonstrators"

    Synonyms: biff, pummel

Synonyms

knob, saddlebow, biff, pummel

Common word forms

pommels, pommeled, pommeler, pommeling, pommelled, pommeller, pommelling

Words from these letters

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