do or fastener

A portable contrivance for fastening a door. It usually consists of a piece jammed in between the door and the casing, having spurs which catch in the latter and a turn-button which engages against the door. Sometimes it is a toggle-strut which thrusts against the door and the floor. IMG:content-0379.png:[blocks in formation] 2. The case into which the door is fitted. door-keeper, s . A porter, an usher; one who keeps the entrance to a building, house, . "The salary of the doorkeeper of the Excise-office had been, by a scandalous job, raised to five hundred a year. It ought to have been reduced to fifty." -Macaulay: Hist. Eng ., ch. xviii. pine, pit, sire, sir, marine; gō, pot, door-knob