Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In mining, a small trap-door on a traveling road.
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Examples
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Maxine locked the front door, then we headed out to the garage, intending to exit via the man-door.
Arcane Circle Linda Robertson 2011
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Maxine locked the front door, then we headed out to the garage, intending to exit via the man-door.
Arcane Circle Linda Robertson 2011
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“Better safe than sorry,” Maxine said and opened the man-door.
Arcane Circle Linda Robertson 2011
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Maxine locked the front door, then we headed out to the garage, intending to exit via the man-door.
Arcane Circle Linda Robertson 2011
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“Better safe than sorry,” Maxine said and opened the man-door.
Arcane Circle Linda Robertson 2011
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“Better safe than sorry,” Maxine said and opened the man-door.
Arcane Circle Linda Robertson 2011
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In the old days, they would have opened the front man-door for Kurtz and let him leave wearing a cheap new suit, with his possessions in a brown paper bag.
Hardcase Simmons, Dan 2001
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The Sheraton hotel's two-tower complex uses Seventh Avenue as its alley, with a block-long blank facade, punctuated only by a metal man-door where you're likely to find hotel catering staff hanging out on their smoke breaks.
unknown title 2009
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" He took my arm and pushed open the small man-door at the side of the mill before I could ask what he was afraid of.
Drums of Autumn Gabaldon, Diana 1997
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"Look there's a small, man-door beside the big truck door.
The Mystery of the Whispering Mummy Arthur, Robert 1965
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