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knocker

[nok-er] / ˈnɒk ər /


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The ancient wooden doors are adorned with an ornate metal knocker and a small grilled window, for guards to peek through.

From New York Times ● Mar. 31, 2023

"Stay close to Troy or they gonna think you're a knocker."

From Salon ● Aug. 21, 2021

“I’m a short knocker, but that Roberts hit the ball a mile. They knew they had the tournament in the bag, so they played like a couple of hackers on the 18th.”

From Golf Digest ● Apr. 21, 2020

From there, I was ushered into a small antechamber with a large door and a foreboding, old-school knocker.

From The Verge ● Dec. 5, 2018

I grabbed the lion’s-head door knocker and knocked tentatively.

From "The Fault in Our Stars" by John Green

Elphick said the vandals had removed two door knockers from the statue which were a nod to the 1986 fantasy film Labyrinth which Jones had co-written.

From BBC ● May 20, 2026

They provide the people, the phone banks, the door knockers.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 14, 2026

Armies of door knockers and phone bankers are pitching in, while the police union presses its members to volunteer for the final Vallas sprint.

From New York Times ● Mar. 27, 2023

But the door knockers didn’t explain where to vote or promote a candidate, the usual work of canvassers ahead of a big election.

From Reuters ● Nov. 3, 2022

I'll tie fifty threads, I thought-telegrammed her, to fifty door knockers.

From "Black Swan Green" by David Mitchell




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