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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

... seaman reclining upon the cushioned transom, picking his teeth while he scans the columns of a late number of the Liverpool Mercury, is Captain Smith, the skipper, a regular-built, true-blue, Yankee ship-master. Though his short black curls are thickly sprinkled with gray, ...

— Graham's Magazine Vol XXXII. No. 3. March 1848 • Various

... the second cigar aside and crossed the room to readjust a half-opened ventilating transom. Mr. McVickar had not defined the duties of the new counselship very clearly, but there had been a strong inference running through the private-car conference to the effect that the headship of the local legal department would carry with it some political ...

— The Honorable Senator Sage-Brush • Francis Lynde

... the last to alight. Taking Colonel Sutphen's proffered arm, he proceeded toward the entrance, followed by his suite. The place was dark and grim, no light came through the heavily curtained windows and only by a gleam through the transom above the door could the closest observer have discovered that it ...

— Trusia - A Princess of Krovitch • Davis Brinton

... little cabin he saw seated along the transom and in the wide-armed chairs Captain Christopher Newport, Bartholomew Gosnold, Edward Wingfield, John Ratcliffe, John Martin and George Kendall. They greeted Smith as he entered, as did the other gentlemen leaning against the bulkheads, but with no cordiality, and he knew ...

— The Princess Pocahontas • Virginia Watson

... felt his way through the Treasurer's office and paused to listen; then he drew up a chair which stood near the door, and climbing up, slipped off his coat and hung it over the half-open transom. Then he closed the transom, and the room was practically light proof. With the same caution he reached the floor, and tiptoed back to the window, where he found ...

— The Short Line War • Merwin-Webster

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