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knocker

[ nok-er ]

Phonetic (Standard)IPA

noun

knocker

/ ˈnɒkə /

an object, usually ornamental and made of metal, attached to a door by a hinge and used for knocking
informal.
a person who finds fault or disparages
slang.
usually plural a female breast
a person or thing that knocks
on the knocker informal.
promptly; at once
you pay on the knocker here

Origin of knocker¹

Middle English word dating back to 1350–1400; knock, -er ¹

The knocker appeared to hear the response, and to assert that it was quite impossible he could wait so long.

Aristide, however, went up to the door; as there was neither knocker nor bell, he rapped with his knuckles.

At the bottom of Knocker's Bay is a shoal mangrove opening, of no importance.

When I am dead the knocker will pass into other hands equally persistent with those of the mighty men who handed it to me.

This was of oak after a design of his own, and was wide and massive, with hinges of wrought-iron and a dragon's-head knocker.

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