tamkins
tamkins is the plural of tamkin.
Meaning of tamkin
Noun (1)
tamkin (plural tamkins)
- 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...1868, Great Britain Patent Office, Bennet Woodcroft, Patents for Inventions
- 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.1959, Surrey Archaeological Society, Surrey Archaeological Collections: Relating to the History and Antiquities of the County, page 1
Noun (2)
tamkin (uncountable)
- A woman's duty to submit to her husband's will.
- […] 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.1996, Mai Yamani, Feminism and Islam: Legal and Literary Perspectives, page 294
Questions about tamkins
- What is tamkins the plural of?
- Tamkins is the plural of tamkin.
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