doorstead

doorstead

English

Etymology

door +‎ stead

Noun

doorstead (plural doorsteads)

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"

References

• doorstead in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913