TYMPAN

tympan

Noun

  1. a piece of cloth padding placed under the platen of a letterpress to distribute the pressure on the sheet being printed
  2. the stretched membrane of a drum; a percussion instrument consisting of a hollow cylinder with such a membrane at each end
  3. a tympanum


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