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 Pummel or Pommel.Pumpernickel. 
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E. Cobham Brewer 1810–1897. Dictionary of Phrase and Fable. 1898.
 
Pump.
 
To sift, to extract information by indirect questions. In allusion to pumping up water.   1
       
“But pump not me for politics.”
       
Otway.
 


 Pummel or Pommel.Pumpernickel. 

 
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