tompion
Americannoun
noun
Example Sentences
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"You saw me put that tompion in the muzzle of the gun there, didn't you?"
From The Battleship Boys' First Step Upward or, Winning Their Grades as Petty Officers by Patchin, Frank Gee
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
Finishing his task, he turned up the tompion and sat down on it, as with chin in hands he listened to the conversation.
From The Battleship Boys' First Step Upward or, Winning Their Grades as Petty Officers by Patchin, Frank Gee
Sam was sitting on the deck of the turret, industriously at work polishing the brass tompion with which the end of the gun is plugged to keep out the sea water.
From The Battleship Boys' First Step Upward or, Winning Their Grades as Petty Officers by Patchin, Frank Gee
"You are sure you put the tompion in the gun?"
From The Battleship Boys' First Step Upward or, Winning Their Grades as Petty Officers by Patchin, Frank Gee
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