Pommels serve to give grain and pliancy to the skins.
Pommels are made of different sizes, and with grooves of various degrees of fineness.
Cork pommels are also used, but they are not grooved.
To roll clear of the horse is the secret in most heavy falls, and this can only be done where the foot is absolutely free from the stirrup, and the habit from the pommels of the saddle.
A habit-skirt, if properly constructed, cannot possibly catch upon the pommels when the wearer receives a fall.
She is caught in the pommels or entangled by the stirrups, both of which calamities mean dragging, and often result in a horrible death.
Of course nothing is easier under ordinary circumstances than to "stick on" a side saddle, because the pommels almost hold one there: herein lies much danger.
Once the raft timber was unlashed and removed, the tongue was lowered, and from the pommels of six saddles the wagon was set high and dry on the north bank.
On the arrival of the tarpaulin, the body was laid upon it, and four mounted men, taking the four corners of the sheet, wrapped them on the pommels of their saddles and started for our wagon.
We took a wrap on thepommels of our saddles with the loose end, and when the word was given our eight horses furnished abundant motive power, and the wagon floated across, landing high and dry amid the shoutings of the outfit.
They were light, and we did it with ropes from the pommels of our saddles, two to four horses being sufficient to handle any of the trees.
Honeyman was left to hold the horses; then, taking off our belts and hanging them on the pommels of our saddles, we secreted our six-shooters inside the waistbands of our trousers.
Then the axemen crossed, felled the nearest trees, and the last logs were dragged up from the pommels of our saddles.
But ropes securely snubbed topommels held them to the quarry.
To get a good foundation was the most important matter, but the brush from the trees would supply the material for that; and within an hour, brush began to arrive, dragged from the pommels of saddles, and was piled into the stream.
But we had four good mules to our chuck wagon, and instead of dragging the cattle ashore from the pommels of saddles, we tied one end of the rope to the hind axle and used the mules in snaking the cattle out.
We had the wagon unloaded and had reloaded some of the heaviest of the plunder in the front end of the wagon box, by the time our foreman and Priest returned, dragging from their pommels a thirty-foot pole as perfect as the mast of a yacht.
For they give each other such a battering with their pommels upon the helmets that they are quite stunned, as they almost beat out each other's brains.
Thus, instead of sending her up, dragging her down till the whole thing ends in a wild struggle, she clinging round the pommels with her chest, chin, and arms.
There are several fragments of scabbards, a bronze guard, two ivory pieces which may have beenpommels of the hilt or caps of the sheath, and a good specimen of an entire hilt in bone (No.
This is the form of the well-known daggers from Mycenae, which have the blades inlaid with designs in coloured metals, the hilts and pommels embossed and chased in gold.
Once the horses were fed and their own supper eaten, the lads fastened onto two dry logs, and from pommels dragged them up to the tiny blaze at the corral opening.
The stretching of the wire was less than an hour's work, the slack being taken up by the wranglers, ever upholding Texas methods, from the pommels of saddles, while Priest clinched the strands with staples at the proper tension.
The horse wranglers were detailed by Priest, and fitting an axle to the spool of wire, by the aid of ropes attached to the pommels of two saddles, it was rolled up to the scene of its use at an easy canter.
I maintain that a lady who knows how to sit has a far safer and surer seat on a side-saddle than a man can ever have, and that her grip of the pommels affords her infinitely greater security than a man's "grip of the knees.
The pommels of your saddle are most likely too far apart; that is, the leaping head is placed too low.
The swords locked at the pommels like the horns of deer and for a second the two stood glaring into each other's eyes.
They tied us with long ropes--the one end around our waists, the other to the pommels of the saddles.
Grasp thepommels again and throw a somerset over it,--coming down on your feet, if the Fates permit.
Now vault up and sit upon the horse, at one end, knees the same side; now grasp the pommels and whirl yourself round till you sit at the other end, facing the other way.
Grasp these lowpommels and vault over the horse, first to the right, then again to the left; then with one hand each way.
The two pommels must fit the knees exactly, or the circulation will be impeded, and a cramp brought on which renders the muscles powerless to grip the pommels.
Moreover, if she were half out of the saddle, the pommels might strike her chest or crush a rib, and she would be more likely to be kicked.
The wounded, sheltering themselves with one arm beneath their shields, pointed their swords by resting the pommels on the ground, while others, lying in pools of blood, would turn and bite the heels of those above them.
Hoarse cries issued from their thick bears, their tattered coats of mail flapped upon the pommels of their swords, and through the holes in the brass might be seen their naked limbs, as frightful as engines of war.
Without an instant's hesitation the two boys slid into the water with a splash, but keeping tight hold on the pommels of their saddles.
They had taken firm hold of the ropes with their right hands, their left hands holding to the pommels of their saddles.
Every lady ought to be measured for this part of the saddle, as the distance between the two pommels will depend partly on the length of her legs.
When in the correct position, the body is placed as far forward upon the saddle as the pommels will permit, the waist and shoulders only being inclined backward, as already described.
But with a stirrup of the right length, and the arrangement of the pommels such as we have described, a steadiness is given to the left leg that can never be obtained with the old-fashioned two-pommeled saddle.
A rider who depends entirely upon the pommels to enable her to keep her seat is a bad rider, who will soon acquire all kinds of awkward and ridiculous positions, and expose herself to much severe criticism.
Leather, now so often used for this purpose, becomes after a time so slippery that it is difficult to retain one's seat, and the pommels when covered with it are apt to chafe the limbs severely.
Quilted or plain doeskin seat and pommels are matters of taste.
Her eyes shone bright and eager, and the pommels of her cheeks were flushed and red contrary to their wont.
The two pommels in the centre are about 18 inches apart, and can be removed for certain exercises hereafter described.
In that case, pommels level with the back of the horse are inserted to fill up the grooves.
Now swing the right leg over the horse in between the pommels (as in Fig.
For these exercises the pommels must be removed, and the spaces filled up with the flush ones, as described already.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "pommels" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
