Tampting

• tempting In Finnegans Wake, HCE's Manservant Sackerson represents on one level the serpent in the Garden of Eden, who tempts Eve. Here he is described as a parasitical flea hopping about on HCE's deathbed.

• tamping: stopping up (a shot hole) with earth, etc, after the explosive has been introduced

• damping muffling the sound of a drum or other musical instrument

• tampon: (1) a plug of cotton or other absorbent material inserted into a wound to control haemorrhage, or into the vagina to absorb menstrual flow; (2) an inking-pad; (3) a two-headed drumstick