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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..

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..

Transom :: Transom (n.) One of the crossbeams connecting the side frames of a truck with each other.

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

Sleeper :: Sleeper (n.) One of the knees which connect the transoms to the after timbers on the ship's quarter.

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

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

Transenne :: Transenne (n.) A transom.

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

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