English Dictionary

tampion

noun

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. / (music) A plug for the upper end of an organ pipe.

The tampion is used to seal the opening of a cannon.

意味（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.

意味（2）

(music) A plug for the upper end of an organ pipe.

意味（3）

Obsolete form of tampon (“plug of absorbent material inserted into a body cavity or wound to absorb fluid”).