tompion
Americannoun
noun
Example Sentences
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The bunch of rope-yarns sometimes secured to the tompion, saturated with water to cool the gun in action, and swab up any grains of powder.
From The Sailor's Word-Book An Alphabetical Digest of Nautical Terms, including Some More Especially Military and Scientific, but Useful to Seamen; as well as Archaisms of Early Voyagers, etc. by Sir Edward Belcher
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
Under the wheels are two chocks; the vent-cover is on the vent, a tompion in the muzzle; a broom leans against the parapet beyond the stack of cannonballs.
From Artillery Through the Ages A Short Illustrated History of Cannon, Emphasizing Types Used in America by Albert Manucy
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 Augustus Charles Hobart-Hampden
"What did that red-head do with the tompion, I wonder!"
From The Battleship Boys' First Step Upward or, Winning Their Grades as Petty Officers by Frank Gee Patchin
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