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tompion

American

[tom-pee-uhn] / ˈtɒm pi ən /

noun

tampion.

tompion British

/ ˈtɒmpɪən /

noun

a variant of tampion

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Thereupon she plucked the tompion out of the best gun in her battery, as she thought, and began to hint a fear that Miss Wylder had taken a fancy to a person unworthy of her.

From There & Back by MacDonald, George

No. 4 goes to port side of muzzle, takes out tompion.

From Ordnance Instructions for the United States Navy. 1866. Fourth edition. by United States. Navy Dept. Bureau of Ordnance

Containing fuzes, and a pair of sleeves, attached to the tompion.

From Ordnance Instructions for the United States Navy. 1866. Fourth edition. by United States. Navy Dept. Bureau of Ordnance

Containing the priming-wire, friction-tubes, and lanyard, attached to the tompion, and lying on the mortar.

From Ordnance Instructions for the United States Navy. 1866. Fourth edition. by United States. Navy Dept. Bureau of Ordnance

To this tompion is, or used to be, attached a large piece of wadding, what for I never rightly understood.

From Sketches From My Life By The Late Admiral Hobart Pasha by Hobart-Hampden, Augustus Charles

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