pommel
21Pommel horse — The pommel horse is an artistic gymnastics apparatus. It is traditionally used by male gymnasts, due to intense strength requirements. Originally made of a metal frame with a wooden body and a leather cover, today the frame may contain plastic or …
22pommel horse — noun a gymnastic horse with a cylindrical body covered with leather and two upright handles (pommels) near the center; held upright by two steel supports, one at each end • Syn: ↑side horse • Hypernyms: ↑horse, ↑gymnastic horse • Part Meronyms:… …
23pommel horse — noun Date: 1908 1. a gymnastics apparatus for swinging and balancing feats that consists of a padded rectangular or cylindrical form with two pommels on the top and that is supported in a horizontal position above the floor 2. an event in which… …
24pommel horse — Gymnastics. a padded, somewhat cylindrical floor supported apparatus, similar to a vaulting horse but having two graspable pommels on top, used by men for hand supported balancing, rotating, and swinging maneuvers. Also called side horse. [1905… …
25pommel horse — noun a) An apparatus for gymnastic exercises with a cylindrical body covered with leather and two upright pommels, as hand grips, near the centre; held upright with adjustable legs …
26pommel — Synonyms and related words: bang, baste, bastinado, batter, beat, belabor, bellyband, belt, birch, buffet, cane, cinch, club, cowhide, cudgel, cut, drub, flagellate, flail, flap, flog, fustigate, girt, girth, give a whipping, give the stick,… …
27pommel — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) v. t. See pummel. n. [saddle] horn. See support. II (Roget s IV) n. Syn. saddle horn, handle, hilt, knob, ball, horn …
28pommel — pom|mel [ˈpʌməl] n [Date: 1300 1400; : Old French; Origin: pomel, from Vulgar Latin pomellum ball, knob , from Late Latin pomum; POMADE] 1.) the high, rounded part at the front of a horse s ↑saddle 2.) the round end of a sword handle …
29pommel — pummel …
30pommel — [ pɒm(ə)l, pʌm(ə)l] noun 1》 the upward curving or projecting part of a saddle in front of the rider. 2》 a rounded knob on the end of the handle of a sword, dagger, or old fashioned gun. verb (pommels, pommelling, pommelled; US pommels, pommeling …
