tampion

• tampeon
• tompion

From Middle English tampioun, variant of tampon, from Old French tampon, a nasalised form of tapon, from Frankish *tappō, from Proto-Germanic *tappô. More at tampon.

• IPA^(key): /ˈtæmpiən/

tampion (plural tampions)

1. A wooden plug, or a metal or canvas cover, for the muzzle of a gun, cannon, or other piece of ordnance when not in use; a stopper; a bung.
2. (music) A plug for the upper end of an organ pipe.
3. Obsolete form of tampon (“plug of absorbent material inserted into a body cavity or wound to absorb fluid”).

• silencer

• “tampion”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
• William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “tampion”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.

• timpano, maintop, main pot, ptomain

tampion

1. genitive singular of tampio

• tamponi