Crossword clues for doorstop
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
doorstop \door"stop`\, n. (Carp.) The block or strip of wood or similar material which stops, at the right place, the shutting of a door; any object used to stop open doors from moving.
Wiktionary
n. 1 Any device or object used to halt the motion of a door, as a large or heavy object, a wedge, or some piece of hardware fixed to the floor, door or wall. 2 (context jocular English) A large book, which by implication could be used to stop a door. 3 (context British English) (in error for doorstep) A thick sandwich. 4 (context Australia English) An interview with a politician or other public figure (apparently informal or spontaneous but often planned), as they enter or leave a building.
WordNet
n. a stop that keeps open doors from moving [syn: doorstopper]
Wikipedia
A doorstop (also door stopper, door stop or door wedge) is an object or device used to hold a door open or closed, or to prevent a door from opening too widely. Alternatively, a doorstop can be a thin slat built inside a door frame to prevent a door from swinging through when closed. A doorstop (applied) may also be a small bracket or 90 degree piece of metal applied to the frame of a door to stop the door from swinging (bi-directional) and converting that door to a single direction (in-swing push or out-swing pull).
Usage examples of "doorstop".
Tate should have no trouble convincing tourists that the conchs would make excellent doorstops, paperweights, or instruments through which children and guests could listen to the surging drum of distant ocean waves upon the beach.
He either fried them so hard they could be used for doorstops, or boiled them so much they lost both flavor and texture.
Not the laundromat, but the drugstore had been wide open, the doors chocked with rubber doorstops to let in a little cool air-the power outage had killed their air conditioning, of course.
Then he flung the door violently inward against the doorstop with one of those gestures with or by which an almost painfully unflagging pre-ceptory of youth ultimately aberrates, and stood there saying, "Bayard.
Antique hunters were everywhere, stripping old farmhouses of their antique brass doorknobs and doorstops and forced-air register fittings, old pickle crocks—.
Leaning casually against the hut's doorframe, used as a doorstop, was a superb finished panel of inlaid veneers with a pentagon set in a circle.