storm-door

See also: storm door

English

Noun

storm-door (plural storm-doors)

1. Archaic form of storm door.
   • 1886, Harriet [Elizabeth] Prescott Spofford, “The Tragic Story of Binns”, in Harper’s New Monthly Magazine, volume LXXIII, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers, […], page 833, columns 1–2:

     If Roxy were not Roxy, the cook, talking at the kitchen storm-door with Binns, whose scraggy horse dropped his head so low with the dropping of the reins that he looked as if he would drop in the street altogether if the authorities did not interfere—[…]

   • 1888, Donn Piatt, “The Sales-Lady of the City”, in The Lone Grave of the Shenandoah and Other Tales, Chicago, Ill., […]: Belford, Clarke & Co., →OCLC, pages 90–92:

     Near one of the doors, and almost above a register, she got overheated from the one, and a chill whenever the storm-door opened and let in a column of freezing air. […] It was that the sales-lady, his fiancée, should procure an impression on wax of the key to the storm-door of old Dunn’s store.

   • 1897, Francis C[ruger] Moore, “Sample Specifications”, in How to Build a Home: The House Practical; Being Suggestions as to Safety from Fire, Safety to Health, Comfort, Convenience, Durability, and Economy, New York, N.Y.: Doubleday & McClure Co., →OCLC, page 105:

     Storm-doors and -shutters.—All doors, windows, and other openings on the first floor, and cellar openings, shall be provided with storm-doors and -shutters, made in the strongest manner, of tongued and grooved white pine, ⅞ inch thick and 3 inches wide, nailed with galvanized wrought-iron nails clinched. […] The storm-door of the kitchen shall be hung on hinges and fitted with a Yale lock, using the same key as the lock to the main kitchen door, which shall also be a Yale lock.