tompion
Americannoun
noun
Example Sentences
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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
"What did you do with that tompion after you polished it?"
From The Battleship Boys' First Step Upward or, Winning Their Grades as Petty Officers by Patchin, Frank Gee
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
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
One tompion with lanyard and wad In the muzzle of the gun.
From Ordnance Instructions for the United States Navy. 1866. Fourth edition. by United States. Navy Dept. Bureau of Ordnance
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