pommel• If it has been made of lead, then I would also have suggested that it was a pommel.• If made of bronze and gilded, it is possibly a knife or daggerpommel.• A thin sound beside him, and Ratagan had unsheathed his axe from its case at his pommel.• Joseph was shrouded beneath a grey, black-striped blanket, and rested his rifle across his saddle pommel.• The raider's spear rested across the pommel of his saddle, first light glinting on its long, polishedblade.• It had a couple of rubies set in the pommel.• Reachinginside his tartanplaid he tried to make his fingers take hold of the pommel of his sword.
Originpommel
(1300-1400)Old Frenchpomel, from Vulgar Latinpomellum“ball, knob”, from Late Latinpomum; → POMADE