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A motor mounted externally on the transom of a small boat. The boat may be steered by twisting the whole motor, instead of or in addition to using a rudder.
The aft vertical board on the stern of a boat. Often the part to which an outboard unit or the drive portion of a sterndrive is attached.
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The vane of a cross-staff.
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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.
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One of the crossbeams connecting the side frames of a truck with each other.
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A transom.
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The piece of wood or iron connecting the cheeks of some gun carriages.
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One of the knees which connect the transoms to the after timbers on the ship's quarter.
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See Transom, 2.
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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.
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The transoms, knees, beams, keelson, and other chief timbers used for connecting and strengthening the parts of a vessel.
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