tompion

American  

[tom-pee-uhn] / ˈtɒm pi ən /

noun

1. tampion.

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tompion British  

/ ˈtɒmpɪən /

noun

1. a variant of tampion

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Example Sentences

He was still grumbling over the loss of the tompion, which meant also the loss of twenty-five dollars to himself.

From The Battleship Boys' First Step Upward or, Winning Their Grades as Petty Officers by Patchin, Frank Gee

"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

"And, another thing, before you talk of giving a month's pay remember that you have nearly a month's pay charged against you for the loss of the tompion."

From The Battleship Boys' First Step Upward or, Winning Their Grades as Petty Officers by Patchin, Frank Gee

Loaders put in the tompion and on muzzle-bag, and wipe off and re-lacquer the front pivot-bolt.

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

If the ball be red hot, a tompion, or trencher of green wood, is to be driven in before it.

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 Belcher, Edward, Sir