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doorcheek

noun

Etymology

From door + cheek.

  1. derived from *ǵyewh₁-✻ — “to chew”
  2. inherited from *kēkǭ✻
  3. inherited from *kākā✻
  4. inherited from ċēce
  5. inherited from cheeke
  6. compounded as doorcheek — “door + cheek”

Definitions

  1. The jamb of a door.

    • And dippe a bunch of hyſſope in the blould that is at the doore, and ſprinkle the vppertranſome of the doore therwith, and both the doore cheekes: let none of you goe out of the doore of his houſe til morning.
    • The doorcheck on that doorway was loose and the door always banged behind him making him startle

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA