Storm-door

Quick meaning: Storm-door is a noun meaning Archaic form of storm door.

Meaning

Archaic form of storm door.

Example Sentences

If Roxy were not Roxy, the cook, talking at the kitchen storm-door with Binns, whose scraggy horse dropped his head so low with the dropping of the reins that he looked as if he would drop in the street altogether if the authorities did not interfere—[…]

Near one of the doors, and almost above a register, she got overheated from the one, and a chill whenever the storm-door opened and let in a column of freezing air. […] It was that the sales-lady, his fiancée, should procure an impression on wax of the key to the storm-door of old Dunn’s store.

Storm-doors and -shutters.—All doors, windows, and other openings on the first floor, and cellar openings, shall be provided with storm-doors and -shutters, made in the strongest manner, of tongued and grooved white pine, ⅞ inch thick and 3 inches wide, nailed with galvanized wrought-iron nails clinched. […] The storm-door of the kitchen shall be hung on hinges and fitted with a Yale lock, using the same key as the lock to the main kitchen door, which shall also be a Yale lock.

Word Forms

• storm-doors

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