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Definition of Doorsills
1. doorsill [n] - See also: doorsill
Lexicographical Neighbors of Doorsills
Literary usage of Doorsills
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Insurance Cyclopáedia: Being a Dictionary of the Definition of Terms by Cornelius Walford (1874)
"... and the doors and door frames or jambs, whether external or in staircases,
and the doorsills and heads, and window shutters and frames, ..."
2. The Insurance Cyclopeadia: Being a Dictionary of the Definitions of Terms by Cornelius Walford (1871)
"... with iron girder beams; and the doors and door frames or jambs, whether extern:
cases, and the doorsills and heads, and window shutters and frames, ..."
3. Our Country: Its Possible Future and Its Present Crisis by Josiah Strong (1885)
"... grades of cotton in Manchester, our electro-plate in Birmingham, and our
watches in Geneva, and undersell European manufacturers on their own doorsills. ..."
4. Forest Physiography: Physiography of the United States and Principles of by Isaiah Bowman (1911)
""Up to the doorsills of the log huts stretched the solemn and mysterious forest.
There were no openings to break its continuity; nothing but endless leagues ..."
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