Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. The cascabel or knob at the rear end of a cannon: the common term in early artillery, as of the sixteenth century.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. (Mil.), rare The cascabel, or hindmost knob, of a cannon.
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Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘pommelion’.
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Lions and tigers and—Well, just lions...
million, billion, trillion, quadrillion, quintillion, sextillion, septillion, octillion, nonillion, decillion, undecillion, duodecillion and 66 more...
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•Public List: Pommelions and Papermills
Started on pommelion--a place for all those words that feature P, then M, then L inside them. Somewhere.
pommelion, papermill, pimple, pemoline, pall mall, pell-mell, peppermill, paleomammalogy, philomelian, pummel, pimpernel, pimpmobile and 32 more...
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The Aubrey/Maturin List I'm Gonna Mak...
I'm wading through Patrick O'Brian's Aubrey/Maturin novels one by one, and someday, I'll wade through them again and list all the words I learned while reading them.
Edit: I started ma...studdingsail, carronade, mumchance, grumlin-futtocks, crosscat-harpings, holystone, sennit, orlop, orchitis, negus, kevel, altumal and 1112 more...
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Just 'cause I like 'em, P
pellucid, pertain, pampas, prate, pinecone, philistine, pantocrator, papaverine, postmeridian, potlatch, pharology, pinniped and 622 more...
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chained_bear See also cascabel. Oct 10, 2008
chained_bear OK, fine. Here's a Public List for P-M-L words! Mar 21, 2008
mollusque Pamphlet, papermill, pumpernickel... Mar 21, 2008
chained_bear Uh oh. Who's going to make a list of P-M-L words? *not I* Mar 21, 2008
mollusque Perhaps the lion and the moose helped trigger the association. Mar 21, 2008
bilby I was thinking of pomelo when sionnach made that comment. But you find the pom- root referring to lots of round things in Romance langauges:
pom-pom, pomodoro, pomegranate, pommel, etc.
from Latin pomum - fruit, apple. Mar 21, 2008
sionnach I was indeed thinking of pamplemousse, though I don't understand why pommelion would create that association, as opposed to a simpler one with apples (pommes). I suppose it's the p-m-l combination that does it.
Thanks, mollusque!
I didn't know that bears could actually *wring* their paws. But maybe c_b was speaking figuratively. Mar 21, 2008
chained_bear That can't be a real word. Really?! *excited* I think of pamplemousse as sharing essentially the same meaning or usage as gehunteschpundt. Mar 20, 2008
mollusque I think sionnach is referring to pamplemousse. Mar 20, 2008
chained_bear Does pomme mean grapefruit in French?
Oh dear. I think sionnach must be making a joke that I'm not getting. *wrings paws and worries she's turning into gangerh*
;) Mar 20, 2008
reesetee Odd. It reminds me of a pommel horse in camouflage. Mar 20, 2008
sionnach Why does this word remind me of grapefruit? Mar 20, 2008
reesetee Amazing. As though we might need a synonym for this word. ;-) I guess it was more useful back in the days of frequent cannon use. Mar 20, 2008
chained_bear Wow. I thought cascabel was a specialized word--turns out it has a synonym.
This paragraph is an eighteenth-century cannon-lover's dream.
"The exactness of the coiled muzzle-lashing, made fast to the eye-bolt above the port-lid, the seizing of the mid-breeching to the pommelion, the neat arrangement of the sponge, handspike, powder-horn, priming-wire, bed, quoin, train-tackle, shot and all the rest told a knowing eye a great deal about the gun-crew..."
--Patrick O'Brian, The Hundred Days, 38 Mar 20, 2008