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Transom :: Transom (n.) The piece of wood or iron connecting the cheeks of some gun carriages.

Transom :: Transom (n.) One of the principal transverse timbers of the stern, bolted to the sternpost and giving shape to the stern structure; -- called also transsummer..

Re-demption :: Re-demption (n.) The act of redeeming, or the state of being redeemed; repurchase; ransom; release; rescue; deliverance; as, the redemption of prisoners taken in war; the redemption of a ship and cargo..

Ransoming :: Ransoming (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Ranso.

Binding :: Binding (pl.) The transoms, knees, beams, keelson, and other chief timbers used for connecting and strengthening the parts of a vessel..

Ransom :: Ransom (n.) The money or price paid for the redemption of a prisoner, or for goods captured by an enemy; payment for freedom from restraint, penalty, or forfeit..

Ransomless :: Ransomless (a.) Incapable of being ransomed; without ransom.

Geld :: Geld (n.) Money; tribute; compensation; ransom.

Re-demption :: Re-demption (n.) The procuring of God's favor by the sufferings and death of Christ; the ransom or deliverance of sinners from the bondage of sin and the penalties of God's violated law.

Rescat :: Rescat (v. t.) To ransom; to release; to rescue.

Sleeper :: Sleeper (n.) One of the knees which connect the transoms to the after timbers on the ship's quarter.

Transsummer :: Transsummer (n.) See Transom, 2..

Raunsoun :: Raunsoun (n.) Ransom.

Ransomed :: Ransomed (imp. & p. p.) of Ranso.

Ransom :: Ransom (n.) To redeem from captivity, servitude, punishment, or forfeit, by paying a price; to buy out of servitude or penalty; to rescue; to deliver; as, to ransom prisoners from an enemy..

Ransom :: Ransom (n.) A sum paid for the pardon of some great offense and the discharge of the offender; also, a fine paid in lieu of corporal punishment..

Ransomer :: Ransomer (n.) One who ransoms or redeems.

Ransomable :: Ransomable (a.) Such as can be ransomed.

Redemptory :: Redemptory (a.) Paid for ransom; serving to redeem.

Transom :: Transom (n.) 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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