Obs. rare. [a. F. timon, temon pole, staff, handle of rudder, helm:—L. tēmōn-em beam, pole.] The rudder of a ship.
[1392–3. Earl Derby’s Expedition (Camd.), 225. Item pro reparacione j tymon per le scriuen.]
1506. Guylforde, Pylgr. (Camd.), 76. Tournynge with suche vyolence yt with the jumpe and stroke of ye falle of ye galye to the rok, the sterne called the temon sterte and fewe frome the hokes.
