dortert (dorter)

[ At home in oure dortour . Chaucer , Summoner's Tale, 1. 147. The Monckes he chaced here and there, And them pursu'd into their dortours sad. Spenser, F. Q., VI. xii. 24. They thought there was no life after this; or if there were, it was without pleasure, and every soul thrust into a hole, and a dorter of a span's length allowed for his rest and for his walk. Jer . Taylor , Works (ed. 1835), I. 693.