Dictionary Entry
transom
transom is a 7-letter English word with 7 senses as noun in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: 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. Face value is 9 in Scrabble and 11 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
7 letters · Scrabble 9 · Words With Friends 11 · 7 senses
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- 1noun
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.
- 2noun
One of the principal transverse timbers of the stern, bolted to the sternpost and giving shape to the stern structure; -- called also transsummer.
- 3noun
The piece of wood or iron connecting the cheeks of some gun carriages.
- 4noun
The vane of a cross-staff.
- 5noun
One of the crossbeams connecting the side frames of a truck with each other.
- 6noun
a horizontal crosspiece across a window or separating a door from a window over it
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- 7noun
a window above a door that is usually hinged to a horizontal crosspiece over the door
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