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noun

Transom n.

(Arch.) A horizontal crossbar in a window, over a door, or between a door and a window above it. Transom is the horizontal, as mullion is the vertical, bar across an opening.

(Naut.) One of the principal transverse timbers of the stern, bolted to the sternpost and giving shape to the stern structure; called also transsummer.

(Gun.) The piece of wood or iron connecting the cheeks of some gun carriages.

(Surg.) The vane of a cross-staff.

(Railroad) One of the crossbeams connecting the side frames of a truck with each other.

Transom knees (Shipbuilding), knees bolted to the transoms and after timbers.

Transom window. (Arch.)

(a)

A window divided horizontally by a transom or transoms.

(b)

A window over a door, with a transom between.

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Etymology of 'Transom'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Transom" Quotes from Famous Books

... hoods, are often so large and watery as to drown small birds and field mice. Note in passing that these otherwise dark prisons have translucent spots at the top, whereas our pitcher-plant is lighted through its open transom. ...

— Wild Flowers Worth Knowing • Neltje Blanchan et al

... This day we got the Tiller properly secured, which hath been the Employment of the Armourers and part of the Carpenters since we Anchor'd at this place; the former in repairing and making new Iron work, and the Latter in fixing a Transom,* (* A transom is a curved piece of wood which supports the end of the tiller.) for the want of which the Tiller has often been in danger of being broke; the Iron braces that supply'd the want of a Transom have broke every time they have been repair'd. Coopers still employ'd ...

— Captain Cook's Journal During the First Voyage Round the World • James Cook

... the Martels' breathing easily for the first time in twenty-four hours. As he passed Rose's room on the way to his own, he saw a light over the transom, and heard the girls' voices rising in heated argument. He knew that the subject under discussion was Harold Phipps, and that Rose's arraignment was meeting with indignant denial and protest. But the fact that Rose could offer specific evidence that would shake the staunchest ...

— Quin • Alice Hegan Rice

... floated out through a Transom three days after he drew a Desk in the extensive Works owned by ...

— Ade's Fables • George Ade

... second story, crossed the landing, and began the next flight. The place was dark as a midnight pit. At the third floor its blackness was relieved slightly by a ray of light from a transom far ...

— Tangled Trails - A Western Detective Story • William MacLeod Raine

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