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From: DICT.TW English-Chinese Dictionary 英漢字典

 tom·pi·on /ˈtɑmpiən/

From: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

 Tam·pi·on n.  [Written also tampeon, and tompion.]
 1. A wooden stopper, or plug, as for a cannon or other piece of ordnance, when not in use.
 2. Mus. A plug for upper end of an organ pipe.
 

From: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

 Tom·pi·on n.
 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.
 3. The iron bottom to which grapeshot are fixed.