ostiary

UK /ˈɒsti.əɹi/ US /ˈɒsti.əɹi/
noun 2

Definitions

noun

1

The mouth of a river; an estuary.

the river of Nilus hath seven ostiaries, that is, by seven channels disburdened itself into the sea

2

One who keeps the door, especially the door of a church; a porter.

They had other inferiour degrees of the Clergy, vvhich becauſe they are meerly ſubſervient, and not conſiderable in Church-government, I ſhall onely touch upon them. […] Laſtly, Oſtiaries; vvhich uſed to ring the bells, and open and ſhut the Church-doores.

So arrayed I stepped at last from my door and was saluted as before by my monstrous ostiaries.

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