different between drub vs pommel

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /d??b/
• Rhymes: -?b

Etymology 1

From Middle English *drob, drof, from Old English *dr?b, dr?f (“turbid; dreggy; dirty”), from Proto-Germanic *dr?buz (“turbid”).

Noun

drub (usually uncountable, plural drubs)

1. (dialectal, Northern England) carbonaceous shale; small coal; slate, dross, or rubbish in coal.

Derived terms

• drubly

Etymology 2

1625, of uncertain origin. Perhaps from Arabic ??????? (?araba, “to beat, to hit”), or perhaps originally from a dialectal word (Kent) drab, variant of drop, dryp, drib (“to beat”), from Middle English drepen (preterit drop, drap, drape “to strike, kill”) from Old English drepan (“to strike”), from Proto-Germanic *drepan? (“to beat, bump, strike, slay”), from Proto-Indo-European *d?reb- (“to strike, crush, kill”). Akin to Old Frisian drop (“a blow, beat”), Old High German treffan (“to hit”), Old Norse drepa (“to strike, slay, kill”). Compare also dub. More at drape.

Verb

drub (third-person singular simple present drubs, present participle drubbing, simple past and past participle drubbed) (transitive)

1. To beat (someone or something) with a stick.
2. To defeat someone soundly; to annihilate or crush.
3. To forcefully teach something.
4. To criticize harshly; to excoriate.

Derived terms

• drubbing

Translations

Anagrams

• BrdU, Burd, brud, burd

English

Alternative forms

• pummel

Etymology

From Middle English pomel, from Old French pomel and Medieval Latin pomellum, pumellum, presumedly via Vulgar Latin *pomellum (“ball, knob”), the diminutive of Late Latin p?mum (“apple”). Compare French pommeau and Spanish pomo.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?p?.m?l/
• (US) IPA^(key): /?p?.m?l/
• Hyphenation: pom?mel
• Rhymes: -?m?l

Noun

pommel (plural pommels)

1. The upper front brow of a saddle.

   Synonyms: swell, fork

2. A rounded knob or handle.
   1. Either of the rounded handles on a pommel horse.
   2. The knob on the hilt of an edged weapon such as a sword or dagger.

      Holonyms: haft, hilt
   3. A knob forming the finial of a turret or pavilion.
3. (sports, obsolete) The bat used in the game of knurr and spell or trap ball.

Derived terms

• pommel horse
• pommel foot
• pommel slicker

Translations

Verb

pommel (third-person singular simple present pommels, present participle pommelling or pommeling, simple past and past participle pommelled or pommeled)

1. (transitive) To pound or beat.

Derived terms

• bepommel
• pommeller

Related terms

• pummel

Translations