transom
tran suhm
- n a window above a door that is usually hinged to a horizontal crosspiece over the door
- n a horizontal crosspiece across a window or separating a door from a window over it
- During a bank robbery in "The Bell Boy" he vaults through a teller window and over a transom, effortlessly trapezing to kick the robbers.
- Meanwhile, arriving over the Internet transom, rough and insistent and bloody, were the tiny electronic dispatches from protesters forced off the streets in Tehran, shaky videos .
- He was desperately trying to stay on top of the flood of data pouring in over the transom to make sure he wasn't going off on a crazy tangent.