Crossword clues for doorknob
doorknob
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Wiktionary
alt. A circular device attached to a door, the rotation of which permits the unlatching of the door. n. A circular device attached to a door, the rotation of which permits the unlatching of the door.
WordNet
n. a knob used to release the catch when opening a door (often called `doorhandle' in Great Britain) [syn: doorhandle]
Usage examples of "doorknob".
She asked coldly as she reached for the doorknob, it sounded as if she was daring Andi to say yes.
When they reached their room, Adam pushed Bugs in ahead of him, slammed the door, locked it and jammed a chair under the doorknob.
At one point, they both reached for the doorknob of the clothespress at the same time.
He even got so far his hand was on the doorknob of the dayroom door and the door half open.
I shut my eyes to recall every hairy inch of carpeting, every fringe, every rococo ceiling oddment, all, all brasswork decor, firedog, switchplates, log-bucket, and doorknob.
I shut my eyes to recall every hairy inch of carpeting, every fringe, every rococo ceiling oddment, all brasswork decor, firedog, switchplates, log bucket, and doorknob.
For the first time he saw the four blue gates with their brass doorknobs, from this distance having the exact appearance of four blue doors.
I must find Gobbo the handy man -- there is the toilet in Signor Falco, the broken window in Madam Jordan and the doorknob in my bedroom .
He surged toward the door, taking his second powerful step as he released the doorknob, sweeping the feminine hands clear as he did so.
George pulled hard on the doorknob and thrust strongly forward, again brushing the female hands before him as they passed the gate.
He interfered, for instance, when Hotten Sonntag, having found a condom in Steffenspark, brought it to class mounted on a branch, and stretched it over our classroom doorknob.
With trembling fingers, she clicked on fight, locked the door, tilted a chair under the doorknob, slid gun out of its holster, and visually surveyed the room.
With the photostat beside the doorknob, Cardona made a magnified comparison.
The only restriction is that you must do so within four seconds after taking hold of the doorknob.
He rigged a setline down on the beach using a doorknob for a sinker and a chicken liver for bait, as he had done as a boy, but at dawn when he pulled in the line there was only a small dead shark tangled in a large clump of seaweed.