Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The post, jamb, or side-piece of a door.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The jamb or sidepiece of a doorway.
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- noun
doorjamb
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a jamb for a door
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Examples
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Having got my cattle-agent out of the door, I resume my consideration of that little mark on the doorpost, which is scored up as the text of the present little sermon; and which I hope will relate, not to chalk, nor to any of its special uses or abuses
Roundabout Papers 2006
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Hanging from a peg on the doorpost was a simple halter, a rye-straw rope spliced into a bight on one end with the other reeved through to form a running loop.
Lord of the Isles 1997
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Having got my cattle-agent out of the door, I resume my consideration of that little mark on the doorpost, which is scored up as the text of the present little sermon; and which I hope will relate, not to chalk, nor to any of its special uses or abuses (such as milk, neck-powder, and the like), but to servants.
Roundabout Papers William Makepeace Thackeray 1837
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At the sound of their approach, the one visible door opened on the crack as if to avoid letting in the cold, and Nora saw a thin dark little woman with rather a hard look and a curiously dried-up skin, whom she rightly guessed to be her sister-in-law, standing in the doorway, while lounging nonchalantly against the doorpost was a tall, strong, well-set-up young man whose age might have been anything between thirty and thirty-five.
The Land of Promise D. Torbett
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A '' 'mezuzah' '' ([[Hebrew]]: '' 'מזוזה' ''"doorpost"; plural '' mezuzot '') is a
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A '' 'mezuzah' '' ([[Hebrew]]: '' 'מזוזה' ''"doorpost"; plural '' mezuzot '') is a
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A '' 'mezuzah' '' ([[Hebrew]]: '' 'מזוזה' ''"doorpost"; plural '' mezuzot '') is a
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On the doorpost of every Jewish home rests a mezuzah.
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After multiple strokes of bad luck, like hitting his head on the doorpost and having to get four stitches, and the plane being delayed by 13 hours because of a hurricane, Plym arrived at Tenerife this morning around eight.
Tenerife day 4 nathreee 2010
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A small parchment scroll written by a scribe and affixed to the doorpost, containing the first two paragraphs of the Shema.
Mark C. Miller: Test-a-Jew: How to Make Sure Your Date Is Really Jewish Mark C. Miller 2011
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