Door-posts

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• Door

  ·noun Passage; means of approach or access. II. Door ·noun An entrance way, but taken in the sense ...

  Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

• Black Posts

  On the east side of Bell Alley or Back Alley, London Wall Street over against Swan Alley. In Broad S...

  A Dictionary of London by Henry A Harben.

• mooring posts or palls

  Strong upright posts fixed into the ground, for securing vessels to the landing-place by hawsers or ...

  The Sailor's Word-Book

• Back door

  ·- A door in the back part of a building; hence, an indirect way. ...

  Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

• Open door

  ·add. ·- Open or free admission to all; hospitable welcome; free opportunity. II. Open door ·add. ·...

  Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

• Without-door

  ·adj Outdoor; exterior. ...

  Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

• Door-keeper

  This word is used in Ps. 84:10 (R.V. marg., "stand at the threshold of," etc.), but there it signifi...

  Easton's Bible Dictionary

• back door

  (usher, or gentleman of the) A sodomite. ...

  Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose

• fire-door

  An access to the fire-place of an engine. ...

  The Sailor's Word-Book

• Out-of-door

  ·adj Being out of the house; being, or done, in the open air; outdoor; as, out-of-door exercise. ·se...

  Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

• barn-door fowl

  The common fowl; also so called in Scotland.--Jamieson. Never had there been such slauthering of ca...

  Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.

• make the door

  , or WINDOWS i. e. fasten them. North. Salop, Leic. ...

  A glossary of provincial and local words used in England by Francis Grose

• dead as a door nail

  Utterly, completely dead. The figure is that of a nail driven into wood, and, therefore, perfectly i...

  Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.