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doorhandle

n. A door handle

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doorhandle

n. a knob used to release the catch when opening a door (often called `doorhandle' in Great Britain) [syn: doorknob]

Usage examples of "doorhandle".

Carl Abeyta arrived at the Forest Service headquarters to discover a weathered ten-year-old statuette of Siflbkey the Bear tied with red ribbon to the doorhandle of the office building.

Bruno Mar-tinez tumbled out, leaving the emergency flasher on, grabbed the doorhandle, and thudded loudly into the locked door.

The doorhandle turned, but with no effect I always kept the door locked at night.

Well, I thought, Nimfodora Semyonovna will regale me now with bilberry water and other cooling drinks--and I had already taken hold of the doorhandle when all at once there was the tramping of feet and shrieking, and shouting of boys from round the corner of a hut in the courtyard.

She hesitated in the quiet coolness of the bathroom, her hand hovering fearfully over the doorhandle f several long seconds before she silently turned it.

By concentrating all her energy she succeeded in touching the doorhandle leading to the corridor beside the lifts and even managed to pull it open part-way and step into the opening.

Richie is screaming 'La Bamba' to a Latin beat, and as Christine suddenly lunges toward me, laying rubber on the hall floor and tearing open locker doors on either side with her doorhandles, I see that there is a vanity plate on the front - a grinning white skull on a dead black field.

Neither of these two voidings was as painful as the one that had taken me off my feet on the way to the privy, but both times I had to clutch the passenger-side doorhandle of my little Ford coupe to hold myself up, and I could feel sweat running down my hot face.