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Tympan meaning
A piece of cloth padding placed under the platen of a letterpress to distribute the pressure on the sheet being printed. | The stretched membrane of a drum. | A percussion instrument consisting of a hollow cylinder with such a membrane at each end.
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Example sentences (3)
One damp piece of paper was then taken from a heap of paper and placed on the tympan.
Then the screw is reversed, the windlass turned again to move the bed back to its original position, the tympan and frisket raised and opened, and the printed sheet removed.
The paper is now held between a frisket and tympan (two frames covered with paper or parchment).