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doorpost

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door·post  (dôrpst, dr-)
n.
See doorjamb.

doorpost [ˈdɔːˌpəʊst]
n
(Miscellaneous Technologies / Building) another name for doorjamb
ThesaurusLegend:  Synonyms Related Words Antonyms
Noun1.doorpost - a jamb for a door
doorcase, doorframe - the frame that supports a door
jamb - upright consisting of a vertical side member of a door or window frame
Translations
doorpost [ˈdɔːpəʊst] Njamba f de puerta
doorpost [ˈdɔːrpəʊst] nmontant m de porte


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It was an ordinance of the Republic One and Indivisible of Liberty, Equality, Fraternity, or Death, that on the door or doorpost of every house, the name of every inmate must be legibly inscribed in letters of a certain size, at a certain convenient height from the ground.
A door opened to the right, and an emaciated sallow man on crutches, barefoot and in underclothing, limped out and, leaning against the doorpost, looked with glittering envious eyes at those who were passing.
So you see Molly, the housemaid, of a morning, watching a spider in the doorpost lay his thread and laboriously crawl up it, until, tired of the sport, she raises her broom and sweeps away the thread and the artificer.
 
 
 
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