Index of English words, starting with "tr"

(1) - Transom (n.) One of the crossbeams connecting the side frames of a truck with each other.
(2) - Transom (n.) The vane of a cross-staff.
(3) - Transom (n.) The piece of wood or iron connecting the cheeks of some gun carriages.
(4) - 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.
(5) - 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.