doorslab
nounEtymology From door + slab.
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Archaeology, History, Human sciences, Sciences A slab forming part of a doorway.
- So she picked all the prettiest flowers she could find and strewed them over the door-slab, which they put in its right place again.1886, Peter Christen Asbjørnsen, translated by H.L. Brækstad, Folk and Fairy Tales, page 58:
- This temple is so called from the two carved limestone doorslabs bearing Maya writing, part of which was read as the date 1014 A. D.1928, El Palacio, volumes 25-26, page 119: