There is a knob on the pommel of the sword. From LearnThat.org. [yourdictionary.com]
Led Team USA to a victory over Canada earlier this year, taking first in pommel horse, still rings and parallel bars. From Wordnik.com. [Meet the USA Gymnastics team] Reference
Alexander Artemev, a world bronze-medal winner in pommel horse, even struggled on the event, which probably cost him an Olympic berth. From Wordnik.com. [Hamm and Horton selected to Olympic gymnastics squad] Reference
Set into the pommel was a lustrous star sapphire, as big as a mans clenched fist. From Wordnik.com. [Dragons Of A Lost Star]
The pommel was a lion head of bronze, the hilt leather-bound, the blade sharp and true. From Wordnik.com. [Shield of Thunder]
The pommel was a silver-washed iron apple, and the quillions were double, set at right angles to each other. From Wordnik.com. [Conan the Valiant]
He struck with the sword pommel, turned, and cut a pair of liches across at midchest with a single sweeping motion. From Wordnik.com. [Lord of the Isles] Reference
His sword pommel drops off. From Wordnik.com. [zornhau: Broken swords!] Reference
It is coiled up and carried on the pommel of the saddle. From Wordnik.com. [Dangers of the Trail in 1865 A Narrative of Actual Events] Reference
"Please don't fall, Scylla -- hang on to the pommel tight.". From Wordnik.com. [Southern Stories Retold from St. Nicholas] Reference
Launcelot knocked at the gate with the pommel of his sword. From Wordnik.com. [Stories of King Arthur and His Knights Retold from Malory's "Morte dArthur"] Reference
Ebony handle, brass guard and pommel, sharp five-inch blade. From Wordnik.com. [A Catalogue of Early Pennsylvania and Other Firearms and Edged Weapons at "Restless Oaks"] Reference
The First Sergeant was talking gently, leaning over his pommel. From Wordnik.com. [Short Stories of Various Types] Reference
Then he rapped lightly on the oak with the pommel of his sword. From Wordnik.com. [Doom Castle] Reference
He's looped the reins of the grey over the pommel of his own saddle. From Wordnik.com. [Nan Sherwood at Rose Ranch] Reference
Mahomet, by Ganelon on the sacred relics in the pommel of his sword. From Wordnik.com. [Hero-Myths & Legends of the British Race] Reference
Travis, who stood on the rock, nearly on a line with the pommel of the saddle. From Wordnik.com. [The Bishop of Cottontown A Story of the Southern Cotton Mills] Reference
We walk and ride a couple of pommel lifts deeper and about two miles into the mine. From Wordnik.com. [Safety Concerns Don't Slow China's Coal Boom] Reference
Grasping the pommel, she looked miserably at the long neck swaying in front of her. From Wordnik.com. [The 1926 Tatler] Reference
She raised herself upon the saddle, and crouching on her knees clung to the pommel. From Wordnik.com. [Woman's Work in the Civil War A Record of Heroism, Patriotism, and Patience] Reference
Vulcanite grips, quillions and elephant-head pommel of some white composition metal. From Wordnik.com. [A Catalogue of Early Pennsylvania and Other Firearms and Edged Weapons at "Restless Oaks"] Reference
"A balloon your granny!" exclaimed Walter, tying the legs of the antelope to his saddle pommel. From Wordnik.com. [Nan Sherwood at Rose Ranch] Reference
Across the pommel of the saddle, in front, was fastened a bag of oats; and behind, my Mass kit. From Wordnik.com. [The Greater Love] Reference
A lariat hung from the pommel of the scout's saddle, and this he took in hand as he dismounted. From Wordnik.com. [The Boy Land Boomer Dick Arbuckle's Adventures in Oklahoma] Reference
Though almost unconscious, Jim clung to the saddle with his body half-drooping over the pommel. From Wordnik.com. [Frontier Boys on the Coast or in the Pirate's Power] Reference
She found his rifle in the saddle-boot and his revolver in the holster suspended from the pommel. From Wordnik.com. [Grace Harlowe's Overland Riders Among the Kentucky Mountaineers] Reference
The cavalry, with their muskets on the pommel of the saddle, silently drew up round the chateau of. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
In the meantime, Hippy had taken a canvas bag from his pack and hung it over the pommel of his saddle. From Wordnik.com. [Grace Harlowe's Overland Riders in the Great North Woods] Reference
Then I saw that she had been secured to the high pommel of the Spanish saddle by a turn or two of a lasso. From Wordnik.com. [A Queen's Error] Reference
He stopped short for a full minute to pommel his resonant chest; to breathe deep, deep breaths of the night balm. From Wordnik.com. [Flamsted quarries] Reference
Accolon with his shield, and with the pommel of his sword in his hand gave such a blow that Accolon fell back a little. From Wordnik.com. [Stories of King Arthur and His Knights Retold from Malory's "Morte dArthur"] Reference
She carried her wide-brimmed straw hat on the pommel of her saddle; evidently it had not proved satisfactory as a riding hat. From Wordnik.com. [Ainslee's, Vol. 15, No. 6, July 1905] Reference
Matins, with one hand clutching the reins and the pommel of the saddle, and the other holding that book in a mountain hurricane. From Wordnik.com. [My New Curate] Reference
There in the stone was the fair rich sword, and in the pommel thereof were precious stones and subtile letters wrought with gold. From Wordnik.com. [Stories of King Arthur and His Knights Retold from Malory's "Morte dArthur"] Reference
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