(n.) A wooden stopper, or plug, as for a cannon or other piece of ordnance, when not in use.
(n.) A plug for upper end of an organ pipe.
Example Sentences:
(1) The protein-binding assay developed by Brown, Albano, Ekins, Sgherzi & Tampion [(1971) Biochem.
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.