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

There was a genteel tap of the knocker and the musical voice asked again, “Where do Vanished objects go?”

From "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows" by J.K. Rowling

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

As with replacing cabinet and drawer pulls in a kitchen, replacing door handles, hinges and knockers with new materials can give the front entry a freshened look.

From Seattle Times ● Jun. 9, 2022

He grabbed the wooden knockers on the tiller lines and began to bang them against the ironbark knocker-boards fastened to either side of the hull.

From "The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics" by Daniel James Brown