A sash window or hung sash window is made of one or more movable panels or `sashes` that form a frame to hold panes of glass, which are often separated from other panes (or `lights`) by narrow muntins. Although any window with this style of glazing is technically `a sash`, the term is used almost exclusively to refer to windows where the gla... Found on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sash_window
In architecture, a sash-window is a window, consisting of two frames usually made of wood, fitted with one or more panes of glass either of which frames which may be slid up and down in grooves and are held in position by cords and weights in the window aperture. Found on http://www.probertencyclopaedia.com/browse/TS.HTM