Est. 1998 — 27 years of woodworking knowledge
Monday, My bailout
This may come immediately to mind but the term was new to me. But it struck me funny on anyway. I recently visited a church where a building there had a "snow" door. It was raised pretty close to a foot off grade level and was barely tall enough to get through in a crouch. There was a comment made that it was built that way to make people humble before God. The guide said "Wow, I never heard that before (sarcastically). What is the proper (common) name for a door like that?
Hint
These can be observed on dairy and hay barns too. It is also the same word, but used differently at a grinding mill and playing fields.
Re:You talking about....
that door that June Lockhart always talked from in the 1950-60's series of Lassie, Dutch door(?)
Monday answer. Full moon tonight
The stars go back into the box.
Church and barn doors are typically oversize openings in buildings, and with the churches especially, the constant opening and closing in the winter when the services lasted all day, and the outhouse was a necessity, meant that when large church doors opened frequently churches got very cold very quickly. The answer was a door within a door that was small and made the heat loss tolerable. Barns used the door not so much for heat loss but rather to save effort if there was a buildup of snow, mud, ice on the high races of sliding doors. Notwithstanding the bending before God comment at the church, I thought it amusing that late comers to church had to enter by the �wicked� door. (One example is located at Yeocomico Church is an historic church in Virginia. The original wooden structure was built in 1655. It was replaced in 1706.)
The true name of the door is a WICKET.
It is the same name of the small wire hoops (British) (American �wickets) openings through which balls are stroked on the playing fields (pitch) in croquet. And it is also the name of the whole item consisting of three stumps and two bails in the game of cricket
A wicket is also the name given the gate to control water in a raceway for a water run mill or also a dam in a pond..