doorpost
nounEtymology From door + post.
1
Either of the upright posts on either side of a door, which together support a lintel; a doorjamb.
- In every house a he-lamb was to be slain, and its blood to be sprinkled on the doorposts of the house.1920, Edward Carpenter, Pagan and Christian Creeds, New York: Harcourt, Brace and Co., published 1921, page 40:
- Derived terms
- deaf as a doorpost