- (n.) The vane of a cross-staff.
- (n.) One of the crossbeams connecting the side frames of a truck with each other.
- (n.) One of the principal transverse timbers of the stern, bolted to the sternpost and giving shape to the stern structure; -- called also transsummer.
- (n.) The piece of wood or iron connecting the cheeks of some gun carriages.
- (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.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
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