Transom
Part of speech: noun
Definition: A crosspiece over a door; a lintel. A small hinged window above a door or another window. A horizontal dividing bar in a window. Any of several transverse structural members in a ship, especially at the stern; a thwart. The flat or nearly flat stern of a boat or ship. The horizontal beam on a cross or gallows.
Traverse
Part of speech: verb
Definition: To travel across, often under difficult conditions.To visit all parts of; to explore thoroughly; as, to traverse all nodes in a network.To rotate a gun around a vertical axis to bear upon a military target.To climb or descend a steep hill at a wide angle.
Part of speech: noun
Definition: A route used in mountaineering, specifically rock climbing, in which the descent occurs by a different route than the ascent.In fortification, a mass of earth or other material employed to protect troops against enfilade. It is constructed at right angles to the parapet.A series of points, with angles and distances measured between, traveled around a subject, usually for use as "control" i.e. angular reference system for later surveying work.
Example sentence: When you look out the window of a spaceship, you see entire countries, vast swaths of continents. One turn of the head covers what once took thousands of years to traverse at ground level.