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单词 tampion
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tampiontompionn.

Brit. /ˈtampɪən/, /ˈtɒmpɪən/, U.S. /ˈtæmpiən/
Forms: α. Middle English tampyne, Middle English–1500s tampon, tampond, tampyon, 1500s tampioun, 1500s–1700s tampin, 1600s tampeon, Middle English– tampion; 1500s–1600s tampkin, 1600s–1700s tamkin; (1600s–1800s tampoon). β. 1600s tomping, 1700s–1800s tompion, 1800s tompeon; 1600s tomking, 1600s–1700s tomkin, tompkin.
Etymology: < French tampon, in same senses (1440 in Godefroy Compl.), a nasalized variant of French tapon (1382 in Hatzfeld & Darmesteter) a piece of cloth to stop a hole, etc., derivative of tape plug; compare tamper , nasalized variant of taper verb to plug. The original form tampon has undergone many corruptions in English: compare pompon , pompion n. and adj., pumpkin n. The form tampoon (compare dragoon , etc.) appears to be confined to dictionaries (from Phillips downwards). Tompion is a frequent form in all senses. See also tampon n.
1.
a. A plug for stopping an aperture: e.g. a bung for a cask, etc. Obsolete.
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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].
b. Farriery. A seton; a tent; a pessary: cf. tampon n. 1. Obsolete.
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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.
2.
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.
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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.
b. Applied to the bottom plate of grapeshot, which serves as a wad to the charge. Obsolete.
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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.
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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.
figurative.1756 Gentleman's Mag. 26 398 Take out the tompkin of your mouth, and fire away loud as thunder.1864 R. D. Blackmore Clara Vaughan III. v. i. 126 She commenced an active bombardment, pulling out the tompions from every gun of mock religion.1882 G. MacDonald Castle Warlock (1883) xv. 83 No sooner did the..note of the discharge of its [bottle of claret's] tompion reach his ear [etc.].
4. In the organ: see quots.
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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.
5. (See quot. 1611) Obsolete. rare.
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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.
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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).
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