Pommel vs Rondel - What's the difference?
pommel | rondel |
The upper front brow of a saddle.
Either of the rounded handles on a pommel horse.
The knob on the hilt of an edged weapon such as a sword.
A knob forming the finial of a turret or pavilion.
To pound or beat.
* 1851 ,
A metric form of verse using two rhymes, usually fourteen 8- to 10-syllable lines in three stanzas, with the first lines of the first stanza returning as refrain of the next two.
A poem in the above form.
The verse form rondeau.
A poem in the above rondeau form.
A rondelle, (small) circular object.
A long thin medieval dagger with a circular guard and a circular pommel (hence the name).
A small round tower erected at the foot of a bastion.
As nouns the difference between pommel and rondel
is that pommel is the upper front brow of a saddle while rondel is a metric form of verse using two rhymes, usually fourteen 8- to 10-syllable lines in three stanzas, with the first lines of the first stanza returning as refrain of the next two.As a verb pommel
is to pound or beat.pommel
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Alternative forms
* pummelNoun
(en noun)- (Macaulay)
Derived terms
* pommel horseHolonyms
* haft, hiltSee also
*Verb
- I will not say as schoolboys do to bullies—Take some one of your own size; don’t pommel me! No, ye’ve knocked me down, and I am up again; but ye have run and hidden.