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Definition of Tompions
1. tompion [n] - See also: tompion
Lexicographical Neighbors of Tompions
Literary usage of Tompions
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A dictionary of the Spanish and English languages, orig. compiled by Neuman by Henry Neuman, Giuseppe Marc' Antonio Baretti (1862)
"Clogs, a sort of pattens used by women to keep their shoes clean and dry. 2.
(Gunn.) Gun-tompions, plugs to stop the mouths of guns and other pieces of ..."
2. Hobart Pasha: Blockade-running, Slaver-hunting, and War and Sport in Turkey by Augustus Charles Hobart-Hampden, Horace Kephart (1915)
"Again he gave the order, " Fire, starboard," repeating, " tompions are in, sir,"
and so on till half the broadside had been fired before the ..."
3. Hobart Pasha by Augustus Charles Hobart-Hampden, Horace Kephart (1915)
"Again he gave the order, " Fire,, starboard," repeating, "tompions are in, sir,"
and so on till half the broadside had been fired before the ..."
4. House Documents, Otherwise Publ. as Executive Documents: 13th Congress, 2d by United States Congress. House (1884)
"7 tompions, 15-inch gun. 18 trestles for pointing mortars. 51 tube pouches.
4 water tubs. 49 vent covers, fleld gnus. 1 vent cover, 8-inch rifle. ..."
5. The Rebellion Record: A Diary of American Events by Frank Moore (1866)
"... three hundred and sixty sabre knots ; one hundred and twenty-six vent- covers ;
three ten-inch tompions, twenty twenty- four pounders ; five eight-inch ..."
6. Little Jarvis by Molly Elliot Seawell (1890)
"All hands were called to quarters, as we pursued in chase, With well-primed guns
and tompions out, well splic-ed the main brace." There was one specially ..."
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