doorstead

noun

doorstead

noun

Etymology From door + stead.

1

Obsolete 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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