knocker

"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

Marley lives in an Escher-like dwelling with, of course, a very striking knocker, familiar to readers of “A Christmas Carol,” which Clinch renders newly macabre: It hangs “silent as an empty gibbet.”

From New York Times ● Oct. 8, 2019

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

In the middle of the door there was a great iron knocker.

From "Sounder" by William H. Armstrong

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

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

To do that, Caruso has spent big money on a canvassing and voter outreach operation and hired 300 to 400 door knockers across the city, at $25 to $30 an hour.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 2, 2022

He adjusted hinges, oiled locks, screwed knockers tight, and planed doorjambs.

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