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POMMEL (through O. Fr. pomel, from a diminutive pomellus of Lat. pomum, fruit, apple)

POMMEL (through O. Fr. pomel, from a diminutive pomellus of
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LAT
Lat. pomum,
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FRUIT (through the French from the Lat. fructus; frui, to enjoy)
fruit,
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APPLE (a common Teut. word, A.S. aepl, aeppel, O.H.G. aphul, aphal, apfal, mod. Ger. Apfel)
apple) , any rounded

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OBJECT

object resembling an

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APPLE (a common Teut. word, A.S. aepl, aeppel, O.H.G. aphul, aphal, apfal, mod. Ger. Apfel)

apple, e.g. the rounded termination of a

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SADDLE (a word common to Teutonic languages, cf. Ger. Sattel, Dut. zadel, also in Russ. siedlo and Lat. sella, for sedla; it is not derived directly from Lat. sedile, which means a chair, but all the words are to be referred to the root sad-, which gives

saddle-

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BOW (pronounced " bo ")

bow; in

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ARCHITECTURE (Lat. architectura, from the Gr. ap)(LTEKrwv, a master-builder)

architecture, any

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ROUND (O. Fr. rond, Lat. rotundus, the Fr. is the source also of Du. rond; Ger., Swed., Dan. and Nor. rond)

round knob, as a

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BOSS

boss,

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FINIAL (a variant of " final "; Lat. finis, end)

finial, &c.; more particularly the rounded end to the hilt of a

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SWORD (0. Eng. sweord; ultimately from an Indo-European root meaning to wound)

sword,

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DAGGER

dagger or other

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hand weapon, used to prevent the hand from slipping, and as a

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BALANCE (derived through the Fr. from the Late Lat. bilantia, an apparatus for weighing, from bi, two, and lanx, a dish or scale)

balance to the blade . "

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POMMEL (through O. Fr. pomel, from a diminutive pomellus of Lat. pomum, fruit, apple)

Pommel " is also a

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TERM

term used of a piece of grooved

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wood used in graining

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leather . This word may be the same in origin, or more probably from Fr. paumelle, from paume, the hand,

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palm .

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