tamkin

名词 n.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A tampion.
    — The superabundant wax is next removed, and two coats of paint laid over the entire surface of both plate and letters, the projecting letters being afterwards painted, by the aid of a tamkin or rubber, in a different colour or shade from that of the plate, the whole being finally coated with copal or caoutchouc varnish.
  2. A woman's duty to submit to her husband's will. uncountable
    — […] concepts such as tamkin (woman's duty to submit to her husband's will) and nushuz (her refusal to submit, rebellion), which legitimate women's subordination in marriage, but instead they add two qualifiers.
  3. A brick housing that protects an access point where pipes beneath London could be plugged for maintenance.
    — Its course was punctuated by tamkins, small brick buildings whose name, a variant of the word "tompion," still in use for the plug closing the muzzle of a gun, denoted their purpose: an access point for plugging off sections which required isolation so that repairs could be carried out.

词形变化

tamkins plural
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