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A pommel could be used to pummel an opponent but it should never be used as a hammer!

Pink & purple pommels are perfectly fine on a pretty knife.
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I prefer a rounded pommel on my daggers, it looks good and provides a comfortable position to apply pressure, when needed. BTW is everybody fed up with the auto correction changing your entries? Mine just tried to change pommel into kimmel.

A drop of super glue will tighten many pommels that otherwise couldn't be tightened and is very un noticeable.

The pommel on my old but recently acquired Western is a little loose.  

As an amateur linguist & semi-professional knife geek, I was intrigued to learn that the term "pommel" can be used both as a noun and a verb.  Since the term "pummel" is defined as striking repeatedly, usually with a fist, & the "pommel" is just below the fist at the end of a sword, & can be used to strike blows, perhaps repeatedly, at close range, it's a safe bet that the terms share a common etymology.

I have a Camillus military knife that has the year it was made stamped on the pommel.

That connection is exactly why I used the word pummel dead_left_knife_guy.

My guess is it's a less commonly known word in the US. Coming originally from Africa, from a former British colony there are all kinds of words many people here have never heard of. Every now and then somebody surprises me by coming up with a unusual word - like "my car is wonky" - and I wonder how they come to know one as obscure as that but common to me.

According to dictionary.com pummeling and pommeling are used interchangeably,from the same origins dating back to the 1500s

I like pommels that are functional on a knife.

I've used the pommel of my Camillus Mk II fighting knife as a hammer on many occasions.  The knife handle remains as tight as the day I received some 40 years ago!

allanm said:

A pommel could be used to pummel an opponent but it should never be used as a hammer!

The pommel on many swords are decorative but its primary purpose to balance out the weight of the blade, making the weapon more effective when wielded.  Even the fact that the pommel can be used to bash an opponent is actually secondary to balancing the blade of the sword.

I don't think I own a knife with a pummel......going to have to work on that!

 

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