knocker
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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
The vicarage had a knocker and a bell and I'd tried both, but still nobody answered.
From "Black Swan Green" by David Mitchell
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
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
Census Bureau is short by more than 25% of the door knockers needed for the 2020 census, according to its watchdog agency, and it’s about to let go of its least productive census takers.
From Seattle Times ● Aug. 21, 2020
I grabbed the small plastic bucket Mama kept my hair things in: pomades, combs, barrettes, and knockers.
From "Root Magic" by Eden Royce
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