Source : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Bepommel \Be*pom"mel\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Bepommeled}; p. pr.
   & vb. n. {Bepommeling}.]
   To pommel; to beat, as with a stick; figuratively, to assail
   or criticise in conversation, or in writing. --Thackeray.