Defn: A circular plate or a cross, with two or more cross grooves intersecting at the center, used on the end of a shaft to transmit motion to another shaft not in line with the first.
TRAMMING
Tram"ming, n. (Silk Manuf.)
Defn: The act or process of forming trams. See 2d Tram.
TRAMONTANA
Tra`mon*ta"na, n. [It. See Tramontane.] (Meteor.)
Defn: A dry, cold, violent, northerly wind of the Adriatic.
TRAMONTANE Tra*mon"tane, a. Etym: [OF. tramontain, It. tramontano, L. transmontanus; trans across, beyond + mons, montis, mountain.]
Defn: Lying or being beyond the mountains; coming from the other side of the mountains; hence, foreign; barbarous.
Note: The Italians sometimes use this epithet for ultramontane, and apply it to the countries north of the Alps, as France and Germany, and especially to their ecclesiastics, jurists, painters, etc.; and a north wind is called a tramontane wind. The French lawyers call certain Italian canonists tramontane, or ultramontane, doctors; considering them as favoring too much the court of Rome. See Ultramontane.
TRAMONTANE
Tra*mon"tane, n.
Defn: One living beyond the mountains; hence, a foreigner; a stranger.