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transom
noun
A crosspiece over a door; a lintel.
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"When I started out running PARC, I thought 99% of the work was creating the innovation, and then throwing it over the transom for dumb marketers to figure out how to market it," says Mr Brown.
Both the gig and cutter were designed with narrow transom stems and some rocker or curvature in the keels.
The sampan is sculled with a large sweep balanced on the transom stern.
In Indian waters there are a number of boat types, including dugouts with raised plank sides, sometimes fitted with outriggers, and plank boats with a long, straight, raking stem in profile, a transom stern, and a short keel.
Some sampans have sharp bows; nearly all have large transom stems, and the after portion of the gunwale is higher than the forward portion.
The praam, a lapstrake boat with a square stern and a small transom bow, is a popular Danish type; formerly a sailing and rowing boat, it came to be used extensively as a motor boat.
"For 'over the transom.' " The papers of U.S. Supreme Court Justices enter the office of history over the transom, too, if they come in at all.
A gentle torsion seemed to flicker within his transom.
The greatest of these is "Dirty Snow" (1948), in which Frank, the nineteen-year-old son of a brothel owner (he lives in the brothel, spying on the whores at their work by standing on a table and peering through the transom), makes his way in an unnamed city under military occupation.
Reporting on television is now accompanied by so much partisan yapping disguised as analysis, and there is such a panic to get anything on the air that comes over the transom regardless of the source (like pictures of John Kerry in a silly hat), that the other networks have to feel uncomfortable about accusing anyone else of confusing news with opinion.
I dropped my cartoons off at the transom.
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