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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

... breathe freely here, thank goodness, and work. He was just settling down to it when through the open transom behind him came the sound of rustling skirts and ...

— Quaint Courtships • Howells & Alden, Editors

... rein up upon the bank, and with one accord draw their pistols, and open a fusillade upon the flying boat. Fortunately it is a harmless one; one bullet lodges in the stern transom, a second chips a shaving off the loom of George's oar, a third passes harmlessly through the planking of the boat's bow and skims a few yards along the surface of the water beyond, and the ...

— The Voyage of the Aurora • Harry Collingwood

... scurrying suddenly across the table, down the leg, and racing toward the light switch! By some process of writhing jerks it reached it, and suddenly the room was plunged into half-light as the lights winked out. Light filtering over the transom of the door from the hall alone illuminated the hall, but the hand glowed! It glowed, and scurried away with an awful rustling, scuttling into some unseen hole in the wall. The quiet of the hall was the ...

— Invaders from the Infinite • John Wood Campbell

... for some time, the whole roof of the sacred structure fell in at once, and with a crash heard at an amazing distance. After an instant's pause, the flames burst forth from every window in the fabric, producing such an intensity of heat, that the stone pinnacles, transom beams, and mullions split and cracked with a sound like volleys of artillery, shivering and flying in every direction. The whole interior of the pile was now one vast sheet of flame, which soared upwards, and consumed even the very stones. Not a vestige of the reverend ...

— Old Saint Paul's - A Tale of the Plague and the Fire • William Harrison Ainsworth

... west end were nearly so. Of the opposite window, which had formed the back of the choir, very little remained. The top of it, with all its tracery, was gone, and three broken upright mullions of uneven heights alone remained. This was all that remained of the old window, but a transom or cross-bar of stone had been added to protect the carved stone-work of the sides, and save the form of the aperture from further ruin. That this transom was modern was to be seen from the magnificent height and ...

— Can You Forgive Her? • Anthony Trollope

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