A device (usually metal and ornamental) attached by a hinge to a door.
1 It was probably intended as a doorknocker , but its mouth lacked the appurtenant ring.
2 For another hour he Googled in his study; then the doorknocker went and there was Christine.
3 Directly opposite our position was General Twining's house, its doorknocker muffled and its windows hung with crape.
4 He rapped on the doorknocker instead of ringing the bell and waited, shivering, until light shone through the fanlight.
5 Only as he raised his hand to the doorknocker did occur to Strike that he might, within seconds, come face to face with Donald Laing.
6 From premises on Dublin's south quays, it sells everything from Victorian doorknockers to statuary and Georgian fireplaces.
7 Manfred leans against a shop front, massaging his forehead and eyeballing a display of antique brass doorknockers .
8 It is the image of the Doorknocker into which the Fairy Blackstick changed the wicked porter Gruffanuff!
9 "Why, I'll grab yer by the throat and use yer head for a doorknocker , " he said.
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