Both Uses of
pummel
in
Nicholas Nickleby
- If the proprietor of Dotheboys Hall could have known what was passing in his assistant's breast at that moment, he would have discovered, with some surprise, that he was as near being soundly pummelled as he had ever been in his life.†
Chpt 5 *
- That master's cruel treatment of his own flesh and blood, and vile designs upon a young girl who interested even his broken-down, drunken, miserable hack, and made him linger in his service, in the hope of doing her some good (as, thank God, he had done others once or twice before), when he would, otherwise, have relieved his feelings by pummelling his master soundly, and then going to the Devil.†
Chpt 59
Definition:
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(pummel) to hit repeatedly -- usually with fists
or:
to damage seriously
or:
to defeat decisively