(a) A doorway serving as entrance and exit of a building or an enclosure, doorway, gateway; (b) the door or gate which shuts an entrance.

In phr.: (a) biloken (closen, ditten, loken, maken, shitten, sperren) the dor(es, to close, lock, or bar the door(s; (b) openen, undon, unbarren the ~, to open or unlock the door; casten open the ~, throw open the door; (c) at ~, at (one's) door; also, at (a country's) border; at dores, fro(m ~ to ~, from door to door, from house to house; ben at ~, comen to ~, stonden at ~, be at (one's) door, come to (one's) door, wait at (one's) door, be imminent, be threatening; charen to ~, return to (one's) door, recoil upon (one's) own head; dwellen at dores, live next door (to sb.); eten out of dores, eat (sb.) out of house and home; stont the wind in that ~, does the wind blow from that quarter?, is that the way you feel?; withouten ~, at the door, waiting.

(a) An inlet or outlet; an opening or gap; ~ of the mouthe (wombe); mouth of a river or cave, inlet of the sea; a gap in a hedge; (b) fig. an entrance or approach, or a way of entering (the heart, the mind, heaven, priesthood, etc.); access; openen ~, to open a door (to sth.); provide an opportunity; disclose the meaning (of the Gospel).

In cpds. & combs.: (a) ~ band, a door hinge [cp. bond]; ~ barre, any device for fastening a door or blocking a doorway; ~ bund, ?a doorjamb, ?a hinge [cp. bounde or bond]; ~ boue, ?the arch of an arched doorway; ~ crok, ~ hok, ?a hinge or part of a hinge; ~ herre, a door hinge; ~ keie, a door key; (b) ~ nail, a nail with a big head used in studding doors for strength or ornament; ded as a ~ nail, dead as a doornail; also fig.; domb as a ~ (nail), utterly mute or silent; (c) ~ nothes, doorjambs; ~ pin, the bolt or latch of a door; ~ shide, a board or lath for a door; ~ stal, ?doorjamb, ?a bar for the door; ~ stapel, a hinge or part of a hinge; ~ stoth, doorjamb [OE duru-stod, OI dura-stoð]; ~ tol, toll paid at the city gate; ~ tre, a bar or beam for fastening the door; a doorjamb; ded as a ~ tre; (d) ~ ward, gatekeeper, porter; also fig. [OE duru-weard]; (e) to..~ ward, to or toward a door.

chirche ~, halle ~, stable ~, etc., see chirche, halle, stable, etc.

In place names: see Smith PNElem. 1.134 & 140.