doorpost

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From door +‎ post.

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doorpost (plural doorposts)

  1. Either of the upright posts on either side of a door, which together support a lintel; doorjamb.
    • 1920, Edward Carpenter, Pagan and Christian Creeds, New York: Harcourt, Brace and Co., published 1921, page 40:
      In every house a he-lamb was to be slain, and its blood to be sprinkled on the doorposts of the house.

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