knocker

The site of the charred doors, with grilled peep hole and ancient heavy knocker, stirred no emotion in her.

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 bang on the door with the knocker and there’s a great howl from a dog so big he makes the door shake.

From "Angela's Ashes: A Memoir" by Frank McCourt

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

On a Monday afternoon in October, Les Morones and a crew of three other door knockers hired by the church walked up and down Center Street, talking to anyone who answered the door.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 15, 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

In two hours on the water, the pairs of polers, who stood steering with 20-foot poles, and knockers, who rained rice into the canoe until it formed a thick, green-brown carpet, gathered about 35 pounds.

From Seattle Times ● Sep. 20, 2022

Macondo would no longer be a burning place, where the hinges and door knockers twisted with the heat, but would be changed into a wintry city.

From "One Hundred Years of Solitude" by Gabriel Garcia Marquez