threshhold

THRESH'HOLD, n.

1. The door-sill; the plank, stone or piece of timber which lies at the bottom or under a door, particularly of a dwelling house, church, temple or the like; hence, entrance; gate; door.

2. Entrance; the place or point of entering or beginning. He is now at the threshhold of his argument.

Many men that stumble at the threshhold.