Knocker
['nɒkə] or ['nɑkɚ]
Definition
(noun.) a device (usually metal and ornamental) attached by a hinge to a door.
(noun.) a person who knocks (as seeking to gain admittance); 'open the door and see who the knocker is'.
(noun.) (Yiddish) a big shot who knows it and acts that way; a boastful immoderate person.
Checker: Phelps--From WordNet
Definition
(n.) One who, or that which, knocks; specifically, an instrument, or kind of hammer, fastened to a door, to be used in seeking for admittance.
Checker: Uriah
Unserious Contents or Definition
To dream of using a knocker, foretells you will be forced to ask aid and counsel of others.
Inputed by Hilary
Unserious Contents or Definition
A device on doors for rousing people; also, a device on foot for the same purpose.
Edited by Alexander
Examples
- There was a knocker upon the door, but it was not that which made the sound. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- Utterly confounded, Mr. George awhile stands looking at the knocker. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- He hammered loudly at the knocker and pulled at the bell, but without any success. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
- At five minutes before eight her hand was on the Patriarchal knocker, which was quite as high as she could reach. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
- She had the street laid knee-deep with straw; and the knocker put by with Mr. Bowls's plate. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- Making free with neither bell nor knocker, he struck upon the door with the top of his staff, and, having listened, sat down on the threshold. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- The knocker appeared to hear the response, and to assert that it was quite impossible he could wait so long. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- He was a good little fellow, Paragon would often say, but his face was so like a knocker! Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
- What are you a-settin' down there for, con-wertin' your face into a street-door knocker, wen there's so much to be done. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- Mr. Clapp's brass plate was still on the door, at the knocker of which Dobbin performed a summons. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- I cannot find any knocker, my lord,' said the footman, at our carriage-door, after fumbling about for some time. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
- What business had I to approach the white door or touch the glittering knocker? Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- He had hardly finished one long resounding knock, when he turned to the knocker again and began another. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
- We are quiet here; we don't get badgered here; there's no knocker here, sir, to be hammered at by creditors and bring a man's heart into his mouth. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
Typist: Marion