1837, The Casket, 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:
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.