Meaning of tamkin | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A tampion.
2. A woman's duty to submit to her husband's will.
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3. A brick housing that protects an access point where pipes beneath London could be plugged for maintenance.

Examples

“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.”

“Charges, moreover, shall be made for storage, warehousing, and porterage ; for wharfage, cranes, locks, tamkins, sealing of packages, raftiehs, keshfs, declarations, measuring, etc., according to special regulations.”

“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.”

“Sluice valves, the medieval forerunner of stop valves, were installed and to avoid tampering were protected within brick housings called tamkins.”

“[…] 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?”

“Since 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 issue of tamkin.”

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