1. Word finder
  2. Word definitions
  3. doorpost

Find the word definition

What is "doorpost"

Crossword clues for doorpost

doorpost
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
doorpost
noun
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ And yet we do not consciously look at the doorpost or the armchairs; we see them and take avoiding action automatically.
▪ Chasing him, she banged her funny bone on the doorpost.
▪ He looked terrible and, from the way he clutched at the doorpost for support, drunk.
▪ Marion Aluinn moved quietly away from behind the doorpost.
▪ Or I might pull an orni over my head and half drowse for sixty seconds propped against a doorpost.
▪ The headpiece was gone and the bottom of the doorposts had rotted away.
▪ The massive front door once refused to open when the alignment of the doorposts was shifted.
▪ The tension drained from her, and she sagged limply against the front doorpost.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Doorpost

Doorpost \Door"post`\, n. The jamb or sidepiece of a doorway.

Wiktionary
doorpost

n. doorjamb

Related phrases:
WordNet
doorpost

n. a jamb for a door [syn: doorjamb]

Usage examples of "doorpost".

My wife was of 46ALL THTNGS WISE AND WONDERFUL no service at all in the crisis and I could only look up at her reproachfully as she leaned against the doorpost dabbing at her eyes.

Oh garlands on the doorposts that I pass, Woven of asters and of autumn leaves, I make a prayer for you: Cypris be kind, That every lover may be given love.

My sister, Agnes, was peering round the doorpost and had shaken her head at my response.

The lintel, twisting from the doorposts, grazed his shoulder on its way down.

A dalmatian and a whippet oozed between his legs and the doorposts and bowled over to give me a good sniffing as I climbed out of my Mercedes, with a yapping collection of terriers cantering along in their wake.

Scaurus leaned against the doorpost, watching bureaucrats look up in horror from their tax rolls, memoranda, and counting boards at the warlike apparition loosed in their midst.

He did not imitate his Mussulman prototypes to the extent of bowstringing or decapitating the condemned, nor did he cut any thief's hands off, nor yet nail his ears to a doorpost, but he introduced a modification of the bastinado that made those who were punished by it even wish they were dead.

There were buttons on that doorpost like on a pearly king's hat but only one said 'James J.

Hanging from a peg on the doorpost was a simple halter, a rye-straw rope spliced into a bight on one end with the other reeved through to form a running loop.

He peeked carefully through a tiny gap between the curtain and the doorpost, as he heard the chiming sound of sistrums and the footsteps of many people.