pummel

from WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006)
pummel
    v 1: strike, usually with the fist; "The pedestrians pummeled
         the demonstrators" [syn: {pummel}, {pommel}, {biff}]
from The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Pommel \Pom"mel\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Pommeled}or {Pommelled};
   p. pr. & vb. n. {Pommeling} or {Pommelling}.]
   To beat soundly, as with the pommel of a sword, or with
   something knoblike; hence, to beat with the fists. [Written
   also {pummel}.]
   [1913 Webster]
from The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Pummel \Pum"mel\, n. & v. t.
   Same as {Pommel}.
   [1913 Webster]
from Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
59 Moby Thesaurus words for "pummel":
      bang, baste, bastinado, batter, beat, belabor, belt, birch, buffet,
      cane, club, cowhide, cudgel, cut, drub, flagellate, flail, flap,
      flog, fustigate, give a whipping, give the stick, hammer, heat,
      horsewhip, knock, knout, lace, lambaste, larrup, lash, lay on,
      maul, paste, patter, pelt, pistol-whip, pommel, pound, pulverize,
      rap, rawhide, scourge, sledgehammer, smite, spank, strap, stripe,
      swinge, switch, thrash, thresh, thump, trounce, truncheon, wallop,
      whale, whip, whop
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