单词 | door-stead |
释义 | door-steadn. a. A place for a door; a doorway. ΘΚΠ society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > a building > parts of building > window or door > [noun] > door > doorway door1382 openinga1450 door-place1552 door-stead1552 doorway1799 door-arch1886 1552 R. Huloet Abcedarium Anglico Latinum Dore, place or steade, hypothyrides. 1607 in W. H. Stevenson Rec. Borough Nottingham (1889) IV. 283 That the doresteades be walled vp. 1617 in R. Willis & J. W. Clark Archit. Hist. Univ. Cambr. (1886) I. 204 Two doorsteedes with free stone iames and white stone heddes. 1767 Bp. W. Warburton Lett. (1809) 392 Did nobody clog up the King's door-stead more than I. 1849 Fraser's Mag. 40 540 He was struck with lightning on his grandmother's doorstead. b. A timber framing, like a door-case, used to support the roof of a gallery, in coal-mining. ? Obsolete. ΚΠ 1747 W. Hooson Miners Dict. sig. Giij The Side-pieces..we call Doorsted-Forks; they have a collar on the Top-end in which the Head-tree resteth. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1897; most recently modified version published online June 2019). < n.1552 |
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