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knocker

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knocker [′näk·ər]
(engineering)
shell knocker
door knocker
door knocker, England (15th cent.)
A hinged knob, bar, or ring of metal, attached to the outside of an exterior door, to enable a person to announce his presence.
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The fourth time, before he had time to lose his courage, he grasped the knocker and made a faint sound with it.
The Adventures Of Pinocchio by Collodi, Carlo View in context
There were the rolling meadows, the stately elms, all yellow and brown now; the glowing maples, the garden-beds bright with asters, and the hollyhocks, rising tall against the parlor windows; only in place of the cheerful pinks and reds of the nodding stalks, with their gay rosettes of bloom, was a crape scarf holding the blinds together, and another on the sitting-room side, and another on the brass knocker of the brown-painted door.
Rebecca Of Sunnybrook Farm by Wiggin, Kate Douglas View in context
Now, it is a fact, that there was nothing at all particular about the knocker on the door, except that it was very large.
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