Doornail
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- drink .. door: deoch an dorais (Irish) - parting drink (literally 'drink of the door')
- Karl Reisman notes "whiskey" in "doornail" from medieval French for door (huis) + Danish nogle (key) --- HenHanna notes in 2nd & 4th letters of the Hebrew alphabet (meaning House & Door ) Bet & Daleth - Birth & Death.
- Do ye think me dead? (song) Finnegan's Wake
- dor: generation (Hebrew); nail: that was used in Jesus' Crucifixion. The hero is killed in every generation?