Loaders put in the tompion and on muzzle-bag, and wipe off and re-lacquer the front pivot-bolt.

The Loader and Sponger haul up and secure the lower half-ports, put in tompion, and secure muzzle-bag.

To this tompion is, or used to be, attached a large piece of wadding, what for I never rightly understood.

Tompion made the necessary preparations for the attack on the mistico.

No, Mr Tompion, I have no reason to find fault with your behaviour.

Clear away the starboard guns, and take out the tompions.

Where, sirrah, is the Tompion watch your grandmother gave you?

Jackets and tompions were torn from the cannon.

Take the helm, Duff, and tell Mr Tompion-

The order was given, and old Tompion, the gunner, undertook in person the task of levelling the gun.

Tompions (muzzle plugs) in small arms forbidden.

4 goes to port side of muzzle, takes out tompion.

It is by Tompion, of the sign of the Three Crowns in Paul's Yard, and cost a hundred when new.

The long-case Tompion clock which Jane's parents had given us for a wedding-present ticked deeply and thoughtfully inside its crotch-mahogany torso.

Let Tompion see what he can do with the stern-chaser, in the way of knocking away some of the fellow's spars.

Not until October did a United States vessel again knock the tompions from her guns, and give battle to an enemy.