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transom - use in sentences
Preposition: of
- boat: As the engineer in the party it fell to me to lie upside down under the transom of the boat extracting the old battery.
Converse of object
- have: It may be that you have a transom hung rudder.
- fit: Inboard rudder, see the hints and tips page for how to fit a transom hung one!
- include: The Comar 6 range includes transoms and mullions with a 50mm sight-line.
Adjective modifier
- flat: Each lead by at about my the flat transom.
- wide: Dolly Mixture 1972 This design has a V section hull with a very wide transom for spinnaker reaching in strong winds.
- open: The cockpit features an open, roomy design and an open transom.
- rounded: Mark XI 1958 A development of the Mark IX, with a more rounded transom and stern sections.
- wooden: NEVER step over the stern of the Zodiac; the slightest wave could bring the wooden transom and engine down on your foot.
- single: Only one original window, of six lights with a single transom, survives.
Modifies a noun
- flap: Same is true for rain, or water coming in through transom flaps during launching, say.
- window: Gable has renewed 3 light casement with top lights, mullion and transom window above with attic 2 light casement.
- door: A standard transom door gives access to the optional bathing platform.
- board: The mizzen mast thwart and the teak transom board have been selected to show how the coating has performed a year after application.
- corner: The traveler is set with the boom end on the transom corner or 5 cm outside.
- stern: To improve their roll stability these ships have a pronounced tumblehome and transom sterns through which gun ports are cut.
Noun used with modifier
- bow: Both the stern and bow transoms are made of wood from a different tree than that used for the main body.
- walk-thru: The walk-thru transom leads to an extended bathing platform with swim ladder and transom shower.
- teak: The mizzen mast thwart and the teak transom board have been selected to show how the coating has performed a year after application.
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