ˈdoor-stead
[stead, a place.]
A place for a door; a doorway.
| 1552 [see door-place.] 1607 Nottingham Rec. IV. 283 That the doresteades be walled vp. 1617 in Willis & Clark Cambridge (1886) I. 204 Two doorsteedes with free stone iames and white stone heddes. 1767 Warburton Lett. (1809) 392 Did nobody clog up the King's door-stead more than I. 1849 Fraser's Mag. XL. 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. ? Obs.
| 1747 Hooson Miner's Dict. G iij, The Side-pieces..we call Doorsted-Forks; they have a collar on the Top-end in which the Head-tree resteth. |