tompions

It was raining heavily all the forenoon, so we had not removed what is called the tompions (to my unprofessional reader I may say that the tompion is a very large piece of wood made to fit into the muzzle, for the purpose of preventing wet from penetrating).

Sketches From My Life Pasha, Hobart 1887

It was raining heavily all the forenoon, so we had not removed what is called the tompions (to my unprofessional reader I may say that the tompion is a very large piece of wood made to fit into the muzzle, for the purpose of preventing wet from penetrating).

Sketches From My Life By The Late Admiral Hobart Pasha Augustus Charles Hobart-Hampden 1854

The mortars were capped with tompions, but Sharpe guessed they threw a shell about a foot across and, because the flash of their firing would blast up into the air to lob the bombs in a high arc, the forward stays of the Zebra were not made of hemp, but of thick chain.

Sharpe's Prey Cornwell, Bernard, 1944- 2001

"Couldn't even get the tompions out of his guns," as he explained the matter to the Doctor that evening.

Beyond the City Doyle, Arthur Conan, Sir, 1859-1930 1982

No tompions are to be put into the guns when they are stowed unless expressly directed by the Bureau; if so ordered, a score must be cut out from them on the lower side, half an inch wide and equally deep.

Ordnance Instructions for the United States Navy. 1866. Fourth edition. United States. Navy Dept. Bureau of Ordnance

Colonel was here, these black muzzles with their white tompions, like

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 08, No. 46, August, 1861 Various

The tompions was taken out; the sponge, rammer, crows and handspikes placed in readiness, and all awaited eagerly the word for the action to begin.

In Clive's Command A Story of the Fight for India Herbert Strang

POWDER-SCUTTLES, careful men to be selected for attending 1; 18; 85 directions as to use of, in passing cartridges 1; 41; 181-189 position of, on each deck 1; 43; 190-192 to be provided with water-tight tompions 1; 43; 191 flap-holes in magazine screens to be provided for 1; 43; 193 when guns of the same calibre on different decks may be supplied from the same 1; 43; 194

Ordnance Instructions for the United States Navy. 1866. Fourth edition. United States. Navy Dept. Bureau of Ordnance

(Army Regulations 292.) _Is the use of tompions [17] in small arms permitted?

Manual of Military Training Second, Revised Edition 1906

The muzzles of the great guns were stopped by tompions.

The Naval History of the United States Volume 1 (of 2) Willis J. Abbot 1898