transom
IPA: trˈænsʌm
noun
- (architecture) A crosspiece over a door; a lintel.
- (architecture) A horizontal glazing bar in a window.
- A transom window.
- (nautical) Any of several transverse structural members in a ship, especially at the stern; a thwart.
- (nautical) The flat or nearly flat stern of a boat or ship.
- The horizontal beam on a cross or gallows.
- (figuratively, usually attributively) Items that have arrived over the transom.
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Examples of "transom" in Sentences
- Above it is a multi pane transom.
- Atop it are patterned glass transoms.
- The windows are mullioned and transomed.
- All the windows are mullioned and transomed.
- There is a double door with fanlight transoms.
- There is also a sculling notch on the transom.
- Davits for the pushboat hang over the transom.
- Most of the windows are mullioned and transomed.
- A lower transom is etched with the Masonic symbol.
- A transom is a small window directly above the door
- All these windows are stone and are mullioned and transomed.
- Below the transom is a second inner set of mullions supporting
- Everything that was coming over the "transom" at night was telling me that I was on the right track.
- The transom is available in heights of 15 or 20 inches, and total weight for either version is less than 250 pounds.
- In the first three lights below the transom is the Ecce Homo; in the centre three, Pilate washing his hands, the final moment in the trial.
- For those unfamiliar with the ink-smudged, glory-filled days of the newspaper game, a "transom" is the piece of wood forming the top frame of a door, that also forms the bottom frame of the little rectangular window above that door.
- But the breast-hooks forward and crutches aft, the deck transom, which is the foundation for the deck abaft as well as the assemblage of timbers uniting the stern to the body of the vessel, with all the other parts that make up the ends, cannot be more than mentioned here.
- Getting over a reader's transom is hard, and your best ally in the task is a friend of the reader you're trying to woo: if you can get someone to read and love your book and then make it easy for her/him to email it to a Hugo voter, you're further along than if you'd posted a physical copy of the book right to the door of the reader.
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