In the Tudor period depressed four-centered arch prevails; transoms of windows battlemented.
The windows have mullions and transoms like Gothic windows, but pilasters of elegant Renaissance design ornament the walls.
In the later windows the transoms at the top are often furnished with a small ornamental battlement, causing the mullions to present a concave outline.
The curvilinear tracery gave place to a rigid vertical and horizontal form, with the result that windows and panels instead of being filled with curved bars of stone, were sub-divided by straight perpendicular bars and transoms or cross-bars.
One of the knees which connect the transoms to the after timbers on the ship's quarter.
The last window eastwards is of three lights, is shorter than the rest, and has several transoms in the tracery.
The windows are square or Tudor-arched, with stone mullions and transoms of the Perpendicular style, and the walls terminate in merlons or crenelated parapets, recalling the earlier military structures.
The knees that connect the transomsto the after timbers on the ship's quarter.
A piece brought on at the fore side of the main-post, and generally continued as high as the wing-transom, to seat the other transoms upon.
For one thing I wanted to find out whether the system of high transoms extended to all the rooms, including that in the left wing: for another I wanted to determine the "lay of the land" on that blank side of the house.
They were twelve or fifteen feet high, absolutely smooth; and with one exception broken only by the long, narrow loopholes or transoms I have mentioned before.
The space above this cross stick answered the same purpose as the transoms of the present time.
It will be noted that the original transoms of the large openings have in all these cases been entirely filled up with masonry.
One of the knees which connect the transoms to the after timbers on the ship's quarter.
Transom knees (Shipbuilding), knees bolted to the transoms and after timbers.
Transoms may be hung on pivots, and should be provided with catches, and, if heavy or high, with adjustable lifts.
Transoms are sometimes used in doors on the second floor, though this practice is less common than in the past.
Where doors with transoms are used, it is not uncommon to have the closet doors extend to the full height of the transom tops, and provide additional top panels.
Realising that the work of replacing the garboards and keel would not repay the amount of labour expended on the work, they cut the boat in two, and built transoms to each of the sound ends.
When occasion served, they could also bolt the two transoms together, and thus form one boat, resembling the original gig with a slice of her 'midship section missing.
The lighting of the hall above was from large windows set in deep splayed recesses, with wide stone window seats, three on the eastern and four on the western side, each of two lights, divided by two transoms and richly carved.
On passing beneath the entrance porch into the inner court one is at once struck by the beautiful bay–window on the right–hand side containing eight lights, with mullions and transoms and carved panels, and battlements above.
The Clerestory has seventeen fine windows on each side, with short transoms in the heads, and good tracery.
Timbers lying fore and aft in the bottom of the ship, now generally applied to the knees which connect the transoms to the after timbers on the ship's quarter.
There were ways of shrouding the telltale transoms and--without doubt--the members of the advanced junior classes had learned such little tricks of the trade of being a schoolgirl.
Not a ray of light appeared at any of the transoms over the dormitory doors; yet that might not mean that there were no lights burning within the duo and quartette rooms in the East Dormitory of Briarwood Hall.
Two thirds of her length was decked over, with a trunk cabin, in which weretransoms large enough for four berths, with a cook-room forward.
The transoms were all cushioned, and there was a table between them.
At the end of the transomswere several cushions, used as pillows, and some robes to cover the sleepers.
Though both transomswere open, no sound came from the room opposite where the boys were gathered.
The housekeeper of a certain hotel told the owner that since he put in the vacuum-system, the transoms had to be washed only one-fourth as often as before.
Now, the dust on those transoms came out of the air.
The transoms next should receive attention--see if they will open and close.
The boys, however, planned to give her a couple of low transoms running the length of each side of the pilot-house on which the occupants could sleep on cushions stuffed with a very light grade of vegetable wool.
The boys were not long, even after the exciting interruption to their slumbers, in sinking to sleep again on the transoms in the summer cabin of the Carrier Dove.
The power was then cut off and the work of stocking up the lockers beneath the transoms in the pilot-house begun.
First the transomswere ruthlessly ripped out and thrown aside.
Plain transoms cross the lights, whereas in the inside the tracery and cusping is elaborate.
This alley has ten windows each of six lights, but below the transoms the lights are replaced by twenty carrels or recesses, two to each window.
The ledgers are lashed on above and the transoms beneath the standards at the positions marked.
I'll sit on the transoms a bit, and get a breath of fresh air from the stern port.
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