tamkin
Collocations
4VERB + TAMKIN
aid, lack
TAMKIN + NOUN
duty, rubber, woman's
PREP.
in
ADV.
such, such
Definitions
noun
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.
But he do say that people do complain of Sir Edward Spragg, that he hath not done extraordinary; and more of Sir W. Jenings, that he came up with his tamkins in his guns.
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.
The tamkins were access points where Wolsey's water engineers could isolate sections of the pipeline which were in need of attention.
noun
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.
It's a wife's lack of tamkin that causes such a thing. Why aren't you prepared to be in tamkin?
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6The 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,
WiktionaryBut he do say that people do complain of Sir Edward Spragg, that he hath not done extraordinary; and more of Sir W. Jenings, that he came up with his tamkins in his guns.
WiktionaryCharges, moreover, shall be made for storage, warehousing, and porterage ; for wharfage, cranes, locks, tamkins, sealing of packages, raftiehs, keshfs, declarations, measuring, etc., according to spec
Wiktionary[…] 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 q
WiktionaryIt's a wife's lack of tamkin that causes such a thing. Why aren't you prepared to be in tamkin?
WiktionarySince Islam claims to be opposed to injustice, any law that upholds injustice is anti-Islamic — and if a law is anti-Islamic, it must change. Reformist Islamist women have also proposed to modify the
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