TOMPION

Definition: TOMPION

TOMPION

Noun

1. The iron bottom to which grapeshot are fixed.

2. A plug in a flute or an organ pipe, to modulate the tone.

3. A stopper of a cannon or a musket. See Tampion.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Date "TOMPION" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1838. (references)

"TOMPION" is a common misspelling or typo for: Tamping, Tampon, Thompson.

Stopper

Noun: stopper, stopple; plug, cork, bung, spike, spill, tap; rammer; ram, ramrod; piston; stop-gap; wadding, stuffing, padding, stopping, dossil, pledget, tompion, tourniquet.

Crosswords: TOMPION

Books

• Clocks and their value: illustrated guide to ancient and modern clocks with a unique chart of all known Tompion clocks (reference)

  (more book examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

U.S.S. Texas, tompion of 12-inch gun made of metal from Vizcaya, recording engagements of Texas in Spanish War. Credit: Library of Congress.

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

Vietnamese 

nút miệng súng (tampion). (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "TOMPION": tompions. (additional references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: motion, option, potion.

-2 letters: nomoi, pinot, pinto, piton, point, topoi.

-3 letters: into, mint, mono, moon, moot, omit, onto, pint, pion, poon, toom, toon, topi.

-4 letters: imp, ion, mon, moo, mop, mot, nim, nip, nit, nom, noo, not, oot, opt, pin, pit, poi, pom, pot, tin, tip, tom, ton, too, top.

-5 letters: in, it, mi, mo.

+1 letter: tompions.

+2 letters: monotypic, promoting, promotion, topminnow, toponymic.

+3 letters: compaction, completion, comporting, composting, embonpoint, imposition, monopolist, nonoptimal, omnipotent, promotions, taphonomic, topminnows, toponymies, toponymist.

+4 letters: adoptionism, bicomponent, compactions, competition, compilation, completions, complotting, compositing, composition, compunction, computation, consumption, embonpoints, entomophily, hemoprotein, homeporting, importation, impositions, malposition, misposition, monitorship, monopolists, mountaintop, mucoprotein, multiphoton, omnipotence, omnipotents, opportunism, positronium, postforming, premonition, premonitory, promotional, prothrombin, taphonomies, taphonomist, toponymical, toponymists, tropomyosin.