Doorsill: alternatives and connections

At the door; of the door; as, out adoors.

Slightly turned or opened; as, the door was standing ajar.

An outer port, gate, or door.

Made with an arch or curve; covered with an arch; as, an arched door.

To step over; to stride over or across; as, to bestride a threshold.

See Sill., n. a foundation.

The stone forming a threshold.

That part of a cornice, sill course, or other horizontal member, which projects beyond the rest, and is of such section as to throw of…

(architecture) a projection from a cornice or sill designed to protect the area below from rainwater (as over a window or doorway)

(architecture) a projection from a cornice or sill designed to protect the area below from rainwater (as over a window or doorway)

A door or platform opening downward; a trap door; that part of the gallows on which a culprit stands when he is to be hanged; hence, t…

A door with an opening over it; a half door, sometimes set with spikes on the upper edge.

A door, especially one partly of latticework; -- called also heck door.

In any framed work, a horizontal tie other than sill and plate or other principal ties, securing uprights to one another.

A string for raising the latch of a door by a person outside. It is fastened to the latch and passed through a hole above it in the do…

Relating to a threshold or transitional state between established conditions.

The lowest sill of a structure, usually embedded in the soil; the lowest timber of a house; also, that sill or timber of a bridge whic…

One who keeps the door, especially the door of a church; a porter.