doorstead
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Noun[edit]
doorstead (plural doorsteads)
- (obsolete) The entrance or place of a door.
- February 20 1767 William Warburton, letter to Richard Hurd
- I replied , […] "did nobody clog up the King's door-stead more than I, there would be room for all honest men"
- February 20 1767 William Warburton, letter to Richard Hurd
References[edit]
- “doorstead”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.