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1548 N. Udall et al. tr. Erasmus Paraphr. Newe Test. I. Luke iii. f. 44 Thei turne him cleane out of his owne doores, and pumble hym about the pate.

c1563 Jack Jugler in F. J. Child Four Old Plays (1848) 34 You would poumile him ioylile a-bout the pate.

a1625 F. Beaumont & J. Fletcher Four Plays in One in Comedies & Trag. (1647) sig. Ffffffff2/1 Your pate I would pummell.

1660 G. Fox et al. Battle-door for Teachers 26 I Lugg'd him lustily, I Pummel'd him soundly, I Boxt him to some purpose.

1768 A. Tucker Light of Nature Pursued I. 471 That antagonist, whom he bumps and pummels so furiously.

?1791 ‘A. Pasquin’ Eccentricities J. Edwin I. 21 The Monarch.., pummelling away with his right hand, and with the other holding the Captain's pedal extremity.

1834 F. Marryat Peter Simple I. vi. 72 ‘You villain!’..cried he, pummelling at him as well as he could.

1878 E. C. G. Murray Russians of To-day 49 Mujicks continue to pummel one another, and to be pummelled by their superiors.

1891 T. Hardy Tess of the D'Urbervilles II. xxxiii. 161 I fell asleep and dreamt that I was fighting that fellow again who insulted you, and the noise you heard was my pummelling away with my fists at my portmanteau.

1927 New Republic 12 Oct. 208/2 Once the greater part of the population is pummeled night and morning in underground cattle-cars,..I shall be surprised if there is any energy left.

1964 S. Bellow Herzog (1965) 63 She jumped at him with her fists, not pummelling womanlike, but swinging like a street fighter with her knuckles.

1995 Time 8 May 87/3 Like most widely popular novelists, he has been pummeled by the reviewers—for paper characters, bad dialogue.., disappointing endings.

1843 ‘R. Carlton’ New Purchase I. iii. 14 Mr. Brown..had got out and stood receiving first the band-box containing the pummelled bonnet, and then aiding its owner to alight.

1902 Daily Chron. 6 May 7/2 The pampered and pummelled English boys who buy food and fury so dear.

2005 T. Hall Salaam Brick Lane vii. 144 A grumpy old geezer in a trilby and braces whose face was the texture of pummelled putty.

1755 T. Smollett tr. M. de Cervantes Don Quixote I. iii. iv. 101 Our lot hath been nothing but cudgelling upon cudgelling, pummelling upon pummelling.

1887 T. A. Trollope What I Remember I. viii. 170 I..gave him as good a pummelling as my heart desired.

1953 Bradford (Pa.) Era 30 Sept. 13/6 Both of McGovern's eyes were almost closed from Lucy's pummelling.

2005 Daily Star (Nexis) 14 Aug. 66 Boycs just cannot conceal his glee at Michael Vaughan's boys giving the Aussies a good pummelling.