pummeler

English

Etymology

pummel +‎ -er

Noun

pummeler (plural pummelers)

1. One who pummels (someone or something)
   • 1837, The Casket‎^[1], volume 12, Atkinson & Alexander, page 349:

     You may be brave — brave as Hercules, ay, and as strong as that pummeler of bulls and curer of pork;

   • 2009 January 25, Sarah Lyall, “Is That You, Sherlock?”, in New York Times‎^[2]:

     But he will do those things while being a man of action, a chaser, shooter and pummeler of criminals — “like James Bond in 1891,” Joel Silver, one of the film’s producers, said last fall.