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

Definitions

1. noun. 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.
2. noun. One of the principal transverse timbers of the stern, bolted to the sternpost and giving shape to the stern structure; -- called also transsummer.
3. noun. The piece of wood or iron connecting the cheeks of some gun carriages.
4. noun. The vane of a cross-staff.
5. noun. One of the crossbeams connecting the side frames of a truck with each other.
6. noun. a horizontal crosspiece across a window or separating a door from a window over it

   Synonyms: traverse

7. noun. a window above a door that is usually hinged to a horizontal crosspiece over the door

   Synonyms: fanlight

Synonyms

traverse, fanlight

Anagrams

Other playable words that use exactly the letters in transom:

matrons

Common word forms

transoms, transomed

Words from these letters

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