What's the difference between pompion and tompion?
Pompion
Definition:
(n.) See Pumpion.
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Tompion
Definition:
(n.) A stopper of a cannon or a musket. See Tampion.
(n.) A plug in a flute or an organ pipe, to modulate the tone.
(n.) The iron bottom to which grapeshot are fixed.
Example Sentences:
(1) Tompion Platt Head of policy and communications, Living Streets • Fifty UK cyclists are killed or seriously injured every year, and Peter Walker ( Heading for a fall , G2, 22 March) quotes research into how they can be protected, noting that insulating cyclists from fast-moving and unpredictable traffic may help.