tampion

Meanings

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. 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”).

Etymology

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.