dwarf door

noun

1. a door of approximately half normal height, as the lower half of a Dutch door.

Example Sentences

Creeping in by a dwarf door or rather hole, my Gudabirsi guides showed me a bright object forming the key of the arch: as it shone they suspected silver, and the End of Time whispered a sacrilegious plan for purloining it.

From Project Gutenberg

In the northern wall was a dwarf door, leading by breakneck stairs to a pigeon-hole, the study of the learned Afghan Shaykh.

From Project Gutenberg