Plug for the muzzle of a gun to keep out dust and moisture.
1 Loaders put in the tompion and on muzzle-bag, and wipe off and re-lacquer the front pivot-bolt.
2 The Loader and Sponger haul up and secure the lower half-ports, put in tompion , and secure muzzle-bag.
3 To this tompion is, or used to be, attached a large piece of wadding, what for I never rightly understood.
4 Tompion made the necessary preparations for the attack on the mistico.
5 No, Mr Tompion , I have no reason to find fault with your behaviour.
6 Clear away the starboard guns, and take out the tompions .
7 Where, sirrah, is the Tompion watch your grandmother gave you?
8 Jackets and tompions were torn from the cannon.
9 Take the helm, Duff, and tell Mr Tompion -
10 The order was given, and old Tompion , the gunner, undertook in person the task of levelling the gun.
11 Tompions (muzzle plugs) in small arms forbidden.
12 4 goes to port side of muzzle, takes out tompion .
13 It is by Tompion , of the sign of the Three Crowns in Paul's Yard, and cost a hundred when new.
14 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.
15 Let Tompion see what he can do with the stern-chaser, in the way of knocking away some of the fellow's spars.
16 Not until October did a United States vessel again knock the tompions from her guns, and give battle to an enemy.
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