doorpost

• door-post (archaic)

From door +‎ post.

doorpost (plural doorposts)

1. Either of the upright posts on either side of a door, which together support a lintel; doorjamb.
   • 1920, Edward Carpenter, Pagan and Christian Creeds, New York: Harcourt, Brace and Co., published 1921, page 40:

     In every house a he-lamb was to be slain, and its blood to be sprinkled on the doorposts of the house.

• deaf as a doorpost

• doorstop