TRANSOM
, among Builders, the piece that is framed across a double light window.
Transom, among Mathematicians, denotes the vane of a cross-staff; being a wooden member fixed across it, with a square upon which it slides, &c.
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Entry taken from A Mathematical and Philosophical Dictionary, by Charles Hutton, 1796.
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