tompion
Americannoun
noun
Example Sentences
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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 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
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
"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
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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