tamkin

noun3

1. •
   A woman's duty to submit to her husband's will.

   • It's a wife's lack of tamkin that causes such a thing. Why aren't you prepared to be in tamkin? — 2002
2. •
   A brick housing that protects an access point where pipes beneath London could be plugged for maintenance.

   • The tamkins were access points where Wolsey's water engineers could isolate sections of the pipeline which were in need of attention. — 2010
3. •
   A tampion.

   • 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. — 1887