From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary Englishpommelpom‧mel /ˈpʌməl/ noun [countable] 1 DSHthe high rounded part at the front of a horse’s saddle2 PMWthe round end of a sword handle
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pommel• If it has been made of lead, then I would also have suggested that it was a pommel.• If made of bronze and gilded, it is possibly a knife or dagger pommel.• A thin sound beside him, and Ratagan had unsheathed his axe from its case at his pommel.• Joseph was shrouded beneath a grey, black-striped blanket, and rested his rifle across his saddle pommel.• The raider's spear rested across the pommel of his saddle, first light glinting on its long, polished blade.• It had a couple of rubies set in the pommel.• Reaching inside his tartan plaid he tried to make his fingers take hold of the pommel of his sword.Origin pommel (1300-1400) Old French pomel, from Vulgar Latin pomellum “ball, knob”, from Late Latin pomum; → POMADE 