Glossary

threshold

This usually means the doorway of a building.

Threshold originally meant the wooden board at the bottom of a doorway: the board was used to keep the 'thresh' (the straw used to cover the floor of the house) from being tracked out of the house.

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The threshold of an old home

This photo shows the open doorway of an old house. The board at the bottom of the doorway is the threshold.http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Plimoth_Plantation_Fence.JPG

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