tompion
Americannoun
noun
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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
The Loader and Sponger haul up and secure the lower half-ports, put in tompion, and secure muzzle-bag.
From Ordnance Instructions for the United States Navy. 1866. Fourth edition. by United States. Navy Dept. Bureau of Ordnance
Tom and I had crept into the largest gun that day, having found the tompion out.
From Shireen and her Friends Pages from the Life of a Persian Cat by Gordon Stables
"Do you see any tompion in that gun?" he demanded.
From The Battleship Boys' First Step Upward or, Winning Their Grades as Petty Officers by Frank Gee Patchin
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
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