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Doorway vs Portcullis - What's the difference?

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Doorway is a related term of portcullis.


As nouns the difference between doorway and portcullis

is that doorway is the passage of a door; entrance way into a house or a room while portcullis is a gate in the form of a grating which is lowered into place at the entrance to a castle, fort, etc.

As a verb portcullis is

to obstruct with, or as with, a portcullis; to shut; to bar.

doorway

English

(Webster 1913)

Noun

(en noun)
  • The passage of a door; entrance way into a house or a room.

    • portcullis

    English

    (wikipedia portcullis)

    Noun

    (es)
  • A gate in the form of a grating which is lowered into place at the entrance to a castle, fort, etc.
  • (historical) An English coin of the reign of (Elizabeth I), struck for the use of the (East India Company), and bearing the figure of a portcullis on the reverse.

    • Verb

  • To obstruct with, or as with, a portcullis; to shut; to bar.
    • (Shakespeare)
    (Webster 1913)