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doorstead

noun

Etymology

From door + stead.

  1. inherited from *stéh₂tis✻
  2. inherited from *stadiz✻
  3. inherited from stede
  4. inherited from sted
  5. compounded as doorstead — “door + stead”

Definitions

  1. The entrance or place of a door.

    • February 20 1767 William Warburton, letter to Richard Hurd I replied , […] "did nobody clog up the King's door-stead more than I, there would be room for all honest men"

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