doorpost

See also: door-post

English

Alternative forms

• door-post (archaic)

Etymology

door +‎ post

Noun

doorpost (plural doorposts)

1. Either of the upright posts on either side of a door, which together support a lintel; doorjamb.
   • 1920, Edward Carpenter, Pagan and Christian Creeds, New York: Harcourt, Brace and Co., published 1921, page 40:

     In every house a he-lamb was to be slain, and its blood to be sprinkled on the doorposts of the house.

Derived terms

• deaf as a doorpost

Translations

doorjamb — see doorjamb

Anagrams

• doorstop