Reverse Dictionary: DOOR

ADJECTIVES & ADVERBS
1523 ► GEMEW → GEMOW double; said of a door → obs.
1777 ► SAM-OPE ajar, half-open; said of a door → Eng. dial.
1828 ► AGEE → AJEE ajar, half-open; said of a door → Sc. & Eng. dial.
1898 ► A-SAM ajar, half-open; said of a door → Eng. dial. obs. (Bk.)
1898 ► ASHARD ajar, half-open; said of a door → Eng. dial. (Bk.)
1898 ► ASHORE ajar, half-open; said of a door → Eng. dial. (Bk.)
1904 ► AZAM ajar, half-open; said of a door → Eng. dial. (Bk.)
1950 ► BORN AND RAISED IN A SAWMILL unmannered, uncouth; used esp. of one who neglects to shut the door → Amer. dial.
1950 ► BORN IN A SAWMILL unmannered, uncouth; used esp. of one who neglects to shut the door → Amer. dial.

NOUNS
1325 ► CLICKET the latch of a door → obs. exc. Eng. dial.
1405 ► RING a circular door knocker → obs.
1460 ► GATE-DOOR a street door → obs.
1485 ► CHEEK either of the side posts or uprights of a door, gate, etc. 
1567 ► GYGER a door → cant
1567 ► JEGGER → JIGGER a door → cant
1567 ► JIG a door → cant
1585 ► HAMMER a door knocker → obs.
1617 ► CLAPPER a door knocker → obs.
1627 ► FALSE DOOR a secret door → obs.
1640 ► RAPPER a door knocker → obs. exc. Eng. dial. obs.
19C.. ► RORY O’MORE a door → rhyming sl.
M19. ► AGITATOR  a door knocker → sl.
M19. ► TINKLER  a front door bell → sl.
1863 ► SHUTTER a door, as distinguished from the opening to which it is fitted → Amer. dial.
1873 ► HAR → HARR the upright part of a door to which the hinges are fastened → Sc. & Eng. dial.
1887 ► RAPPER a door-knocker → Eng. dial.
1897 ► OBDER the cross-piece over the door → Sc.
1930 ► BACKCHAT the back door → US sl.
1940 ► IN-AND-OUTER a door → African-American sl.
1940 ► IN-AND-OUT-OF a door → African-American sl.
1966 ► RAMP → RAMP DOOR a sloping outside cellar door → Amer. dial.
1970 ► BURGLAR HOLE a peephole in a front door → US sl.
1992 ► DAVY JONE’S LOCKER a door knocker → UK rhyming sl.
1992 ► DAVY’S LOCKER a door knocker → UK rhyming sl.
1992 ► LITTLE NELL a door bell → UK rhyming sl.

PHRASES
1914 ► BROUGHT UP IN A SAW-MILL applied to a person who forgets to close the door in cold weather, since the older type of saw-mill had no doors → Amer. dial.
1942 ► OPEN UP YOUR HOLE a command to the occupier of a room to open the door → Amer. students’ sl. (Bk.)
1999 ► WERE YOU BORN IN A TENT?  said to a person who habitually leaves doors ajar → Aust. sl. (Bk.)

VERBS
1290 ► MAKE to shut or close a door → arch. & Eng. dial.
1362 ► CLICKET to fasten the wooden latch of a door by inserting a peg above it, thus preventing it from being raised 
1513 ► GIRG to make a creaking noise, to grate, to jar; said of a door → chiefly Sc. obs.
1513 ► JARG to make a creaking noise, to grate, to jar; said of a door → chiefly Sc. obs.
1699 ► DUB to open a door → sl. obs.
1718 ► STAND TO THE WALL to be wide open; said of a door → Sc.
1776 ► FAULD to close a door → Sc.
1786 ► BOUNCE to slam a door, to bang a door → obs.
19C.. ► PUT THE WOOD IN THE HOLE to shut the door → Eng. dial.
19C.. ► TEAR to knock or ring violently at a door → Ireland
1898 ► PUT THE BIT OF WOOD IN THE HOLE to shut the door → Eng. dial. (Bk.)
1913 ► DUNDER to knock loudly and repeatedly on a door → Sc. & Eng. dial.
1953 ► FAN to set a door open → Amer. dial.
1953 ► FAN THE DOOR WIDE to keep the door open → Amer. dial.
1991 ► KEY UP to unlock a door → US sl.