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doorjamb, doorcheek, doorpost

The vertical member on each side of a door.

doorpost

1. See doorjamb.
2. A heavy post that frames one side of a doorway; in the past, doors were sometimes hinged directly to such a post instead of to a doorframe.
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(D) Use the pressure listed on the doorpost. The proper pressure is carefully figured out by the car manufacturers, taking into account weight, weight distribution and the handling characteristics for each car model.
Although the Jewish house remains under the sign of the mezzuzah hanging from the doorpost, other features indicate that a certain adaptation to bourgeois French manners and comportments has already taken place.
): you shall write them on your doorposts and on your gates
The hands, including those of children, were proudly hung on the overseer's doorpost while severed heads were planted on sticks in his garden.
The DM-I unit is fitted to the doorpost and allows operators to enter through one access point and exit through another in multi-access applications.
The mezuzah is a visual marker placed on the doorpost of a Jewish house.
"After the man left, Suzanna knelt at the doorpost, weeping and praying in Slovak.
Candle lighting for Shabbat (the Sabbath) and holidays, affixing a mezuzah to a doorpost, the Passover seder, all constitute part of the core of Jewish life.
The officer deliberately stood behind the doorpost on the driver's side of the vehicle.
This year, one of us will be the lamb whose blood shows up on the doorpost. FAN
The Ibu angled around my chair and peered at me closely, and I mean closely, sniffing like a cat around a pissed-on doorpost. I threw her a look in the mirror as my head at that stage was captured by a sci-fi helmet (1950s version) which was happily whirring away and belching steam.
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