A Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue (up to 1700)
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First published 1986 (DOST Vol. VI).
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Quotation dates: 1492-1508, 1584-1585
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Pomell, -elt, n. [ME and e.m.E. pomel (c 1330), poomel (Lydgate), pommel, (rounded) knob or ornamental ball, woman's breast, saddle-bow, also pum(m)ell(e (1483), OF pomel (1160 in Greimas; mod. F. pommeau), late L. type *pomellum (med. L. pomellus in Du Cange), dimin. of pōmum apple.] The pommel (of a sword). b. A woman's breast. —a. 1492 Myll Spectakle of Luf 283/16.
Scho … set the pomell of the sword to the erd and [etc.] 1508 Treasurer's Accounts IV 25.
For ane crukit baslar of the Turk fasoun with hilt, pomelt and chaip all giltb. a1585 Maitland Quarto MS xlviii 71.
With yvoire nek & pomellis round & comlie intervall
