单词 | tampion |
释义 | tampiontompionn. a. A plug for stopping an aperture: e.g. a bung for a cask, etc. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the world > space > relative position > closed or shut condition > that which or one who closes or shuts > [noun] > closure for a vessel, tube, etc. > a bung or plug bungc1440 tampiona1475 peg1593 plug1618 picket1868 a1475 J. Russell Bk. Nurture (Harl. 4011) in Babees Bk. (2002) i. 121 With fawcet & tampyne redy to stoppe when ye se tyme. 1504 Cal. Anc. Rec. Dublin (1889) 393 viii. d. to hym that skowre the tamponds of the pypes. 1504 Cal. Anc. Rec. Dublin (1889) 393 The skowryng of the tampones of the pypes. c1512 in Archaeologia (1902) 58 302 A susp[i]rall with a tampioun to clense the home pype. 1594 H. Plat Diuerse Sorts of Soyle 37 in Jewell House You must suffer the water to passe away by some tampion. 1658 E. Phillips New World Eng. Words Tampoon, or Tampkin, a small piece of wood serving for a bung. 1729 G. Shelvocke, Jr. tr. K. Siemienowicz Great Art Artillery iv. 174 The Globe..shall be filled..and then stopped with a Tompion that has been steeped in hot Pitch. 1882 [see sense 3]. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > healing > veterinary medicine and surgery > [noun] > veterinary equipment > rowel or seton rowel1566 tampion1566 French rowel1639 scopel1740 wisp1787 scopperil1855 1566 T. Blundeville Order curing Horses Dis. lxvi. f. 43v, in Fower Offices Horsemanshippe Make two styffe long rowles, or tampins, of linnen cloutes, or such lyke stuffe, sharpe poynted like Suger loues,..thruste them vppe into the horses nosetrilles. 1610 G. Markham Maister-peece ii. cxi. 395 Put therto a tampin made of the inner rinde of Elder barke. 1610 G. Markham Maister-peece ii. clvii. 464 Take a tampin of horse haire twound together. a. A disk-shaped or cylindrical piece of wood made to fit the bore of a muzzle-loading gun, and rammed home between the charge and the missile, to act as a wad. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > military equipment > weapon > device for discharging missiles > firearm > equipment for use with firearms > [noun] > wad tampion1481 wadding1627 wad1667 wisp1688 patch1799 junk wad1822 grummet1828 patching1835 oil patch1861 grummet-wad1867 1481–90 Howard Househ. Bks. (1905) 40 Item ij. c. tampons xvj. d. 1485 in M. Oppenheim Naval Accts. & Inventories Henry VII (1896) 69 Gonne Tampyons..ccc. 1489 W. Caxton tr. C. de Pisan Bk. Fayttes of Armes ii. xxvi. 139 Cartes laden with Elme wode for to make the said tampons. 1497 in M. Oppenheim Naval Accts. & Inventories Henry VII (1896) 105 Tampons for gonnes..xijml c. 1497 in M. Oppenheim Naval Accts. & Inventories Henry VII (1896) 340 Tampiones..ccc shotte. 1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 279/1 Tampyon for a gon, tampon. 1582 R. Stanyhurst tr. Virgil Descr. Liparen in tr. Virgil First Foure Bookes Æneis 94 Slinging, Stoans, and burlye bulets, lyke tamponds. 1588 in Acts Privy Council (1897) XVI. 25 Arrowes for the said muskettes with tampkines of eche 1,000. 1688 R. Holme Acad. Armory (1905) iii. xviii. 142/1 Of charging..a Morter peece..put in the Tampkin..a round peece of soft wood put into the mouth of the chamber. 1692 Smith's Sea-mans Gram. (new ed.) ii. iii. 92 Wedges, Tomkings, Priming-Irons. 1692 Smith's Sea-mans Gram. (new ed.) ii. xxi. 134 Draw out the Ladle, and with the Tampion at the other end of the Staff, thrust home the Powder. 1728 E. Chambers Cycl. Tampion, Tamkin, or Tomkin, a kind of Plug or stopple, serving to close a Vessel; particularly to keep down the Powder in a Fire-Arm, &c. 1828 J. M. Spearman Brit. Gunner 307 In the larger mortars,..the chamber should be filled with powder, a tompeon of wood placed over it, and both the tompeon and shell surrounded with sifted earth or sand. ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > military equipment > weapon > missile > ammunition for firearms > [noun] > bullet or shot collectively > shot > of large guns > bottom plate of grape-shot tampion1802 1802 C. James New Mil. Dict. (1816) Tampions, in sea-service artillery, are the iron bottoms to which the grape-shot are fixed. 1823 G. Crabb Universal Technol. Dict. Tompions. [Hence in various later Dicts.] 3. A block of wood fitting into the muzzle of a gun, and serving to exclude rain, sea-water, etc. ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > military equipment > weapon > device for discharging missiles > firearm > equipment for use with firearms > [noun] > stopper for muzzle tampiona1625 stopper1802 snap-cap1844 a1625 H. Mainwaring Nomenclator Navalis (Harl. 2301) Tampkin is a small peece of Wood turned fitt for the mouth of anie peece which is putt in..to keepe out the raine or Sea water, from washing in, when the Peeces lie without Bord. 1627 J. Smith Sea Gram. xiv. 68 A Tomkin is a round peece of wood put into the Peeces mouth and couered with Tallow. 1662 J. Davies tr. A. Olearius Voy. & Trav. Ambassadors 27 The Tampion, which they had forgotten to take out of one of the pieces, pass'd very near me. 1748 T. Smollett Roderick Random II. lxv. 320 He commanded..the tompions to be taken out of the guns. 1836 F. Marryat Pirate xiv, in Pirate & Three Cutters 165 Clear away the starboard guns, and take out the tompions. 1904 W. H. Fitchett Commander of ‘Hirondelle’ 157 The wooden tompions were still lying harmlessly within their iron lips. 4. In the organ: see quots. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > music > musical instrument > keyboard instrument > organ > [noun] > pipe > stopper stopple1771 stopper1852 tampion1864 1864 Webster's Amer. Dict. Eng. Lang. Tampion,..a plug used to stop closely the upper end of an organ-pipe. 1865 Chambers's Encycl. VII. 111/2 (Organ) A mouth-pipe may be stopped at the upper end by a plug called a tompion, the effect of which is to lower the pitch an octave. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > equipment > building and constructing equipment > fastenings > [noun] > pin or peg > on which anything turns swivel1307 pivot1398 gudgeon1496 turning-pin1591 tampion1611 trunniona1625 pole1633 swipple1691 spill1731 millier1778 turn-pin1862 hinge-pin1881 1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Pivot,..the Piuot, or (as some call it) the Tampin of a gate, or great doore. 6. = tampon n. 2. ΘΚΠ society > communication > printing > inking equipment > [noun] > inking ball pumping ball1587 ball1611 pump-ball1611 pumpet1611 pelt1683 pelt balla1828 dauber1850 dabber1854 dab1861 tampion1877 tampon1877 ink-ball1884 society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > printmaking > [noun] > tool to spread ink or colour dabberc1790 dab1861 tampion1877 tampon1877 1877 E. H. Knight Pract. Dict. Mech. Tompion..2 (Lithography) the inking pad of the lithographic printer; Tompon. [Hence in mod. Dicts.] Derivatives ˈtampion v. (also tompion) (transitive) to insert in the manner of a tampion or plug. ΘΚΠ the world > space > place > placing or fact of being placed in (a) position > insertion or putting in > insert or put in [verb (transitive)] > insert as a plug, spigot, panel, etc. panel1832 plug1833 impanel1861 tampion1897 spigot1910 the world > space > relative position > closed or shut condition > close or shut [verb (transitive)] > close an aperture or orifice > with a plug or stopper > insert as a plug tampion1897 plug1952 1897 Daily News 3 Feb. 5/3 London..is not without its trophy lamp-posts, for..in front of the house once occupied by Admiral Boscawen, are two which are tompioned into old cannon captured from the French in a naval fight. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1910; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.a1475 |
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