Word Meanings - BEPOMMEL - Book Publishers vocabulary database

To pommel; to beat, as with a stick; figuratively, to assail or criticise in conversation, or in writing. Thackeray.

Related words: (words related to BEPOMMEL)

• CRITICISER
  One who criticises; a critic.
• STICK-LAC
  See LAC
• ASSAILMENT
  The act or power of assailing; attack; assault. His most frequent assailment was the headache. Johnson.
• WRITING
  1. The act or art of forming letters and characters on paper, wood, stone, or other material, for the purpose of recording the ideas which characters and words express, or of communicating them to others by visible signs. 2. Anything written or
• ASSAILER
  One who assails.
• STICKING
  a. & n. from Stick, v. Sticking piece, a piece of beef cut from the neck. -- Sticking place, the place where a thing sticks, or remains fast; sticking point. But screw your courage to the sticking place, And we'll not fail. Shak. --
• WRITATIVE
  Inclined to much writing; -- correlative to talkative. Pope.
• STICKFUL
  As much set type as fills a composing stick.
• WRITER
  1. One who writes, or has written; a scribe; a clerk. They that handle the pen of the writer. Judg. v. 14. My tongue is the pen of a ready writer. Ps. xlv. 1. 2. One who is engaged in literary composition as a profession; an author; as, a writer
• STICKTAIL
  The ruddy duck.
• WRIT
  3d pers. sing. pres. of Write, for writeth. Chaucer.
• STICKLEBACK
  Any one of numerous species of small fishes of the genus Gasterosteus and allied genera. The back is armed with two or more sharp spines. They inhabit both salt and brackish water, and construct curious nests. Called also sticklebag, sharpling,
• WRITHLE
  To wrinkle. Shak.
• ASSAILANT
  Assailing; attacking. Milton.
• WRITERSHIP
  The office of a writer.
• WRITHE
  to OHG. ridan, Icel. ri, Sw. vrida, Dan. vride. Cf. Wreathe, Wrest, 1. To twist; to turn; now, usually, to twist or turn so as to distort; to wring. "With writhing of a pin." Chaucer. Then Satan first knew pain, And writhed him to and
• CRITICISE
  1. To act as a critic; to pass literary or artistic judgment; to play the critic; -- formerly used with on or upon. Several of these ladies, indeed, criticised upon the form of the association. Addison. 2. To discuss the merits or demerits of a
• CONVERSATIONIST
  One who converses much, or who excels in conversation. Byron.
• WRITTEN
  p. p. of Write, v.
• STICKINESS
  The quality of being sticky; as, the stickiness of glue or paste.
• POKING-STICK
  A small stick or rod of steel, formerly used in adjusting the plaits of ruffs. Shak.
• REWRITE
  To write again. Young.
• TYPEWRITING
  The act or art of using a typewriter; also, a print made with a typewriter.
• PLAYWRITER
  A writer of plays; a dramatist; a playwright. Lecky.
• PIG-STICKING
  Boar hunting; -- so called by Anglo-Indians. Tackeray.
• STORY-WRITER
  1. One who writes short stories, as for magazines. 2. An historian; a chronicler. "Rathums, the story-writer." 1 Esdr. ii. 17.
• FORESTICK
  Front stick of a hearth fire.
• UNDERWRITING
  The business of an underwriter,
• CHOPSTICK
  One of two small sticks of wood, ivory, etc., used by the Chinese and Japanese to convey food to the mouth.
• MESSAGE STICK
  A stick, carved with lines and dots, used, esp. by Australian aborigines, to convey information.
• UNDERWRITER
  One who underwrites his name to the conditions of an insurance policy, especially of a marine policy; an insurer.
• CATSTICK
  A stick or club employed in the game of ball called cat or tipcat. Massinger.