TRANSOM
\tɹˈansəm], \tɹˈansəm], \t_ɹ_ˈa_n_s_ə_m]\
Definitions of TRANSOM
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
- 1919 - The Winston Simplified Dictionary
- 1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
- 1894 - The Clarendon dictionary
- 1919 - The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language
- 1914 - Nuttall's Standard dictionary of the English language
- 1871 - The Cabinet Dictionary of the English Language
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The piece of wood or iron connecting the cheeks of some gun carriages.
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The vane of a cross-staff.
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One of the crossbeams connecting the side frames of a truck with each other.
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One of the principal transverse timbers of the stern, bolted to the sternpost and giving shape to the stern structure; - called also transsummer.
By Oddity Software
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The piece of wood or iron connecting the cheeks of some gun carriages.
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The vane of a cross-staff.
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One of the crossbeams connecting the side frames of a truck with each other.
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One of the principal transverse timbers of the stern, bolted to the sternpost and giving shape to the stern structure; - called also transsummer.
By Noah Webster.
By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer
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A thwart beam or lintel, esp. the horizontal mullion or crossbar of a window: in ships, the beam across the sternpost to strengthen the afterpart.
By Daniel Lyons
By William Hand Browne, Samuel Stehman Haldeman
By James Champlin Fernald
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Pieces of wood which join the cheeks of gun-carriages.
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A beam or timber extended across the stern-post of a ship, to strengthen the aft-part and give it due form; a horizontal mullion or cross-bar in a window, or a lintel over a door; the vane of a cross-staff.
By Nuttall, P.Austin.
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