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doorknocker
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WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. a device (usually metal and ornamental) attached by a hinge to a door [syn: knocker , rapper ]
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. A knocker mounted on a door.
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ On it were a variety of jugs and china vases from the same school of design as the pixie doorknocker .
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
doorknocker \doorknocker\ n. a device (usually metal and ornamental) attached by a hinge to a door, which may be swung by hand against the door to make a loud knocking sound. Syn: knocker.
Usage examples of doorknocker.
It is the image of the Doorknocker into which the Fairy Blackstick changed the wicked porter Gruffanuff!
Lightning rippled across the eastern sky, showing a waterworn step and an odd, gargoyle-faced doorknocker.
He leans against a shop front, massaging his forehead and eyeballing a display of antique brass doorknockers.
Is he really going to sit still while we trundle the doorknockers up to his front porch?
Efreet statues supported iron braziers where crabs boiled and peppers sizzled, oathbinder genies frowned from building-spanning mosaics overlooking the market's transactions, marids clung to high corners as gargoyle waterspouts, harim servant genies glared from doorknockers, even noble djinn swung as string puppets from the kiosks of toymakers.
Old mosaiced threshold, the man’s mouth opening in a groan as the ornate, polished brass doorknocker thrust into his back.