(UK, slang, obsolete) The outer (lockable) door of a set of rooms in a college or similar institution.
(UK, slang, obsolete) The outer (lockable) door of a set of rooms in a college or similar institution.
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(intransitive, originally and chiefly, _, Britain, university slang, dated) To close one's door (originally the outer door of one's set of rooms in a college) as an indication that visitors are not welcome.
(UK, Canada) An equivalent room near the gate of a college, chiefly used as a mailroom.
(rail, British, dated) A hinged railway carriage door which opened outwards, that could be opened from the inside only by opening the window and turning the handle on the outside. They originated on carriages with compartments and no corridors, and persisted on later carriage designs with corridors on one side of the compartments, being fitted on the non-corridor side.
Without the door or house, outside ; esp. in out-adoors.