doorstead

From door +‎ stead.

doorstead (plural doorsteads)

1. (obsolete) The entrance or place of a door.
   • February 20 1767 William Warburton, letter to Richard Hurd

     I replied , […] "did nobody clog up the King's door-stead more than I, there would be room for all honest men"

• “doorstead”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.