Crossword clues for transom
transom
- Flat surface forming the back of a boat
- Part of window-frame majority rotated and revolved internally
- Beam finally put at front of restored manors
- Bar tab originally an extortionate price
- It may appear smart on the stern of a boat
- Door topper
- Narrow window
- Stern's flat place
- Over-the-___ (unsolicited)
- Hinged window over a door
- Crosspiece above a door
- Boat's flat stern — horizontal beam
- Window variety
- Window over a door
- Window not in a wall
- A horizontal crosspiece across a window or separating a door from a window over it
- Crosspiece over a door
- Lintel
- Window above a door
- Kind of window
- Money kidnapper demands after time that’s found in ship
- Member that comes across price for delivery on time
- Man's dealt with rot in timber
- Strengthening crossbar
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Transom \Tran"som\, n. [Probably fr. L. transtrum a crossbeam, transom, from trans across. Cf. Trestle.]
(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. See Illust. of Mullion.
(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.
--Chambers.-
(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 window divided horizontally by a transom or transoms.
A window over a door, with a transom between.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
late 14c., transeyn "crossbeam spanning an opening, lintel," probably by dissimilation from Latin transtrum "crossbeam" (especially one spanning an opening), from trans- "across" (see trans-) + instrumental suffix -trum. Meaning "small window over a door or other window" is first recorded 1844.
Wiktionary
n. 1 A crosspiece over a door; a lintel. 2 A horizontal dividing bar in a window. 3 A transom window. 4 (context nautical English) Any of several transverse structural members in a ship, especially at the stern; a thwart. 5 (context nautical English) The flat or nearly flat stern of a boat or ship. 6 The horizontal beam on a cross or gallows. 7 (context figuratively usually attributively English) Items that have arrived over the transom.
WordNet
n. a window above a door and hinged to a transom [syn: transom window, fanlight]
a horizontal crosspiece across a window or separating a door from a window over it [syn: traverse]
Wikipedia
Transom may refer to:
- Transom (architectural), a bar of wood or stone across the top of a door or window
- Transom (nautical), one of the beams running athwart the ship's hull at the fashion timbers, or the surface, often vertical, that forms the flat back panel of the stern of a vessel
- Operation Transom, a World War II bombing raid
- Transom knot, a simple lashing knot
- Tug Transom, a British daily comic strip
In naval architecture, a transom is the surface that forms the stern of a vessel. Transoms may be flat or curved and they may be vertical, raked forward, also known as a retroussé or reverse transom, angling forward (toward the bow) from the waterline to the deck, or raked aft, often simply called "raked", angling in the other direction. The bottom tip of the transom can be approximately on the waterline, in which case the stern of the vessel is referred to as a "transom stern", or the hull can continue so that the centreline is well above the waterline before terminating in a transom, in which case it is referred to as a "counter stern" or "cutaway stern."
On smaller vessels where an outboard motor is the source of propulsion, the motor is usually mounted on the transom, and held in place either by clamps or metal bolts that go through the transom. In this arrangement, all the power of the motor is transmitted via the transom to the rest of the vessel's structure, making it a critical part of the vessel's construction.
The term is probably a corruption of Latin transtrum, a thwart, in a boat; equivalents are French traverse, croisillon, German Heckspiegel.
The expression over the transom is rooted in the architectural meaning of the word. See: Transom (architectural).
In architecture, a transom is a transverse horizontal structural beam or bar, or a crosspiece separating a door from a window above it. This contrasts with a mullion, a vertical structural member. Transom or transom window is also the customary U.S. word used for a transom light, the window over this crosspiece. In Britain, the 'transom light' above a door is usually referred to as a " fanlight" if a semi-circular shape. For example, 10 Downing Street. The shape is formed from the round arch above, and the flat-topped door below, the window usually segmented like the leaves of an oriental fan
In Western Europe the pig-German word "vasistas". is occasionally heard, it is a representation of the German "Was ist das?" ("What is that?") as it is said that German visitors had not seen a transom window in their home country.
Usage examples of "transom".
Apparently, skimming the surface at this speed, the boat rode so high that the little Pitot tube, or sending unit, attached to the lower edge of the transom, off to one side, was practically clear of the water, with nothing to work on but spray.
As the camera follows Edwards it catches the seventeen-year-old Jasper Ogilvy watching through the transom windown of his bathroom.
Above the lamps, the transoms spanning the vault were encrusted with fragments of fluorspar fine as gravel, which from the high dusk of the roof returned a faint glitter, like an echo of the light below.
Mr Lowitz was of the general opinion that the Port of Oakland had never in its history allowed one machine of any kind to run for an instant without being in perfect repair, especially the loading transoms.
For the spectators not perched on the transom overhead, the players looked waffle-cut by the chain-link fencing.
Admiral Radlov was seated behind a large oaken desk carved from the transom of the ship of the line _Hell Hawk_, of Blackwoods Bay fame.
Mounted on shadowy crosshatchings of gantries, stanchions, transoms, and davits was a thing out of legend, a marvel.
He slashed its gills to start the blood draining, then slit its belly from throat to tail, reached inside the body cavity and pulled the guts out and tossed them overboard through the transom.
Ray, the linguist, listened to and memorized words like spinnaker, mast, bow, stern, aft, tiller, halyard winches, masthead fittings, shrouds, lifelines, stanchions, sheet winch, bow pulpit, coamings, transom, clew outhaul, genoa sheets, mainsail, jib, jibstays, jib sheets, cam cleats and boom vangs.
Pitt stopped the car on a lawn that ran around the house and parked next to a roofed-over carport that housed a Jeep Grand Cherokee and a small, eighteen-foot cabin cruiser with a big outboard motor on the transom.
With her fluid drawn-out lines, the spearlike sprit jutting from the thrusting clipper bow, and her flaring transom, the two-hundred-foot-long Nepenthe looked as if she were made of fine white china floating on a Delft sea.
There ought to be footsteps outside in the corridor, but his transom was closed and I hadn't made much noise coming on crepe rubber soles.
There ought to be footsteps outside in the corridor, but his transom was closed and I hadnt made much noise coming on crepe rubber soles.
Back aboard, he grilled the fish over a small charcoal brazier attached to the transom of the boat, and while it was cooking, he sliced the tomatoes, drizzled some olive oil and tarragon vinegar over them, and added some crumbled feta cheese.
There was a fingerprint man fussing around and I was telling him not to forget the latch of the transom.