As the pressman returns the inkballs to the inkstone, the journeyman closes the frisket and tympan.
Source: wiktionary
Tympan
//ˈtɪmpən//
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But soon I grew used to these sounds, and then I understood as well as ever, that is to say fully one half of what won its way past my tympan.
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