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TOMPION
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Dictionary entry overview: What does tompion mean?
• TOMPION (noun)
The noun TOMPION has 1 sense:
1. plug for the muzzle of a gun to keep out dust and moisture
Familiarity information: TOMPION used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Plug for the muzzle of a gun to keep out dust and moisture
Classified under:
Nouns denoting man-made objects
Synonyms:
tampion; tompion
Hypernyms ("tompion" is a kind of...):
plug; stopper; stopple (blockage consisting of an object designed to fill a hole tightly)
Context examples
To hear and see the fight the whole night through, and never to pull a lanyard or take the tompions out of my guns.
(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
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