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Meaning of TOMPION

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Webster's 1913 Dictionary
 
 Definition: 
\Tom"pi*on\, n. [See {Tampios}]
1. A stopper of a cannon or a musket. See {Tampion}.
2. (Mus.) A plug in a flute or an organ pipe, to modulate the
   tone. --Knight.
3. The iron bottom to which grapeshot are fixed.
 

 

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