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Another word for pommel

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Noun
      1. An alternate name or nickname, especially one chosen for self-identification on online forums or citizens band radio.
      2. A thing like a handle in appearance or use
      3. A means of understanding or control:
      1. The handle of a sword, dagger, tool, etc.
      1. A rounded handle, as on a drawer or door.
      2. A similar device which is turned to control operations of electronic or electrical equipment, as a radio or TV receiver
      3. A handle, usually round, of a door, drawer, etc.
      1. A spherical or almost spherical body:
      2. Such an object moving, thrown, hit, or kicked in a particular manner:
      3. A throw or pitch of a ball
      1. A hard protuberance, such as an antler or projection on the head of a giraffe or rhinoceros, that is similar to or suggestive of a horn.
      2. A usually electrical signaling device that produces a loud resonant sound:
      3. One of the hard, usually permanent structures projecting from the head of certain mammals, such as cattle, sheep, goats, or antelopes, consisting of a bony core covered with a sheath of keratinous material.
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Sentence Examples

  • The form of the bill's "sheath" in the two species is also quite different, for in C. alba it is almost level throughout, while in C. minor it rises in front like the pommel of a saddle.

  • The frec end of the hilt was crowned with a metallic cap or pommel (kashira), the other extremity next the tsuba was embraced by an oval ring (fuchi), and in the middle was affixed on each side a special ornament called the menuki, all adapted in material and workmanship to harmonize with the guard.

  • Another tomb in this region, Melgunov's barrow, found as long ago as 1760, contained a dagger-sheath and pommel of Assyrian work and Greek things of the 6th century.

  • The devotion of a squire of his household, who carried him on the pommel of his saddle to the stronghold of San Esteban de Gormaz, saved him from falling into the hands of the contending factions of Castro and Lara, or of his uncle Ferdinand of Leon, who claimed the regency.

  • pommel The pommel of the saddle is the highest part at the front of the saddle.

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