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Tompion   Listen
noun
Tompion  n.  
1.
A stopper of a cannon or a musket. See Tampion.
2.
(Mus.) A plug in a flute or an organ pipe, to modulate the tone.
3.
The iron bottom to which grapeshot are fixed.





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"Tompion" Quotes from Famous Books



... throughout her whole length, above which rose her glossy jet black bends, surmounted by a milk—white streak, broken at regular intervals into eleven goodly ports, from which the British cannon, ugly customers at the best, were grinning, tompion out, open—mouthed at us; and above all, the clean, well—stowed white hammocks filled the nettings, from tafferel to cathead oh! that I had been in one of them, snug on the berth deck! Aloft, a cloud of white sail swelled to the breeze, till the cloth seemed inclined to say goodby to the bolt ...
— Tom Cringle's Log • Michael Scott
... imagination hoary with age. The eyes of the toper glistened at the sight. Eagerly he stretched out both hands towards it. They actually trembled with desire. Hardly could he endure the delay of its uncorking. No sooner did the fine promissory note of the discharge of its tompion reach his ear, than he cried out, with the authority of a field-officer ...
— Warlock o' Glenwarlock • George MacDonald
... Mr Todd and myself—arrived at the Pen a few minutes before seven o'clock, and were forthwith ushered into the drawing-room, where we were received in most hospitable fashion by Sir Timothy and Lady Tompion, and where we found already assembled several captains and other officers from the men-o'-war then in harbour, with a sprinkling of merchants from Kingston and planters from the neighbouring estates, all very genial, jovial characters in their ...
— A Middy in Command - A Tale of the Slave Squadron • Harry Collingwood
... opened upon her with the same artillery she had employed against her husband. Mrs. Wylder sat for some time quietly listening, but looking so like her daughter, that lady Ann saw the mother's and not the father's was the alliance to seek. 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 ...
— There & Back • George MacDonald


Words linked to "Tompion" :   tampion, stopper, stopple


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