v. [f. BE- 2 + POMMEL v.] trans. To pommel soundly, drub; also fig.
1553–87. Foxe, A. & M. (1596), 152/2. He [Hildebrand] … there all to bepomild pope Alexander with his fists.
1609. Rowlands, Crew Kind Gossips, 9. I … got him downe, and with my very fist I did bepommell him.
1858. Thackeray, Virgin., xlix. (1878), 388. Still bepommeled and stoned by irreproachable ladies of the straightest sect of the Pharisees.
