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Transom :: Transom (n.) The vane of a cross-staff.

Ransoming :: Ransoming (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Ranso.

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

Redemptory :: Redemptory (a.) Paid for ransom; serving to redeem.

Transenne :: Transenne (n.) A transom.

Ransom :: Ransom (n.) The money or price paid for the redemption of a prisoner, or for goods captured by an enemy; payment for freedom from restraint, penalty, or forfeit..

Re-demption :: Re-demption (n.) The act of redeeming, or the state of being redeemed; repurchase; ransom; release; rescue; deliverance; as, the redemption of prisoners taken in war; the redemption of a ship and cargo..

Discharge :: Discharge (v. t.) That which discharges or releases from an obligation, liability, penalty, etc., as a price of ransom, a legal document..

Geld :: Geld (n.) Money; tribute; compensation; ransom.

Transom :: Transom (n.) 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. See Illust. of Mullion..

Raunsoun :: Raunsoun (n.) Ransom.

Ransomless :: Ransomless (a.) Incapable of being ransomed; without ransom.

Ransomed :: Ransomed (imp. & p. p.) of Ranso.

Transom :: Transom (n.) The piece of wood or iron connecting the cheeks of some gun carriages.

Ransomable :: Ransomable (a.) Such as can be ransomed.

Ransom :: Ransom (n.) The release of a captive, or of captured property, by payment of a consideration; redemption; as, prisoners hopeless of ransom..

Transsummer :: Transsummer (n.) See Transom, 2..

Binding :: Binding (pl.) The transoms, knees, beams, keelson, and other chief timbers used for connecting and strengthening the parts of a vessel..

Rescat :: Rescat (v. t.) To ransom; to release; to rescue.

Redeem :: Redeem (v. t.) To ransom, liberate, or rescue from captivity or bondage, or from any obligation or liability to suffer or to be forfeited, by paying a price or ransom; to ransom; to rescue; to recover; as, to redeem a captive, a pledge, and the like..

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