The Collaborative International Dictionary
Doorstone \Door"stone`\, n. The stone forming a threshold.
Wiktionary
n. The stone forming a threshold.
Usage examples of "doorstone".
These sentimental plants breathe something of the longing of the maiden who sits in the Sunday evenings of summer on the lonesome front doorstone, singing the hymns of the saints, and perennial as the myrtle that grows thereby.
Both of them stepped back as a grinding started from within, then slowly the black doorstone rolled to the left and warm air gushed out to wash over us.
She rubbed her feet on the doorstone, scraping off the bits of mulch that clung to them.
I came out to cross the field, sitting on the doorstone with her Bible and a rosary of beautiful, small, variously tinted shells upon her lap.
Armstrong once more upon the doorstone, as he returned a second time from the fire.
Her father SHALL see her, I vowed, and vowed again, if that devil be killed on his own doorstones in trying to prevent it!
Soon the darkening evening filled with the sounds of water: the rush of the rain itself, the drumming on the roof, the melodious drip from eaves onto the doorstones, the gurgle of water moving in the house ditches to the drain beyond.