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UK
/dˈɔːknɒkɐ/
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NOUN
- a device (usually metal and ornamental) attached by a hinge to a door
How To Use doorknocker In A Sentence
- Much work done this week on the house: little things such as caulking seams, getting a new deadbolt, fixing a door or two, finally putting the huge brass gargoyle-y doorknocker I bought a full eight years before the house and never hung because our apartment lease wouldn't permit it on the front door, etc. Shows, house, general
- Transition Year students at the school have been following a course in metalwork and engineering, creating projects such as brass door pulls and doorknockers, and fireside pokers.
- Scrooge sits before the fire in his dressing gown and nightcap thinking of the way that the doorknocker changed form.
- The diseased palazzos, with their flaking waterfront facades, leonine doorknockers and rusting, shackled iron pylons, are from a bygone era at odds with modernity. Kisa Lala: Venice Biennale: A Temple of Transience By Mike And Doug Starn
- The doorknocker for Jasperwood is a commanding annunciator; even a Girl Scout sounds like the Gestapo. Thursday, Jan. 21 – The Bleat.