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Definition of Doorknocker
1. Noun. A device (usually metal and ornamental) attached by a hinge to a door.
Generic synonyms: Device
Group relationships: Front Door, Front Entrance
Definition of Doorknocker
1. Noun. A knocker mounted on a door. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Doorknocker
Literary usage of Doorknocker
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Theory of National and International Bibliography: With Special by Frank Campbell, Walter Hamilton, Charles Dexter Allen (1896)
"... Mrs. Susan Denison Gallaudet of Washington, DC, which represents an old
doorknocker, also refers to a matter of personal history which is of interest. ..."
2. Publications by English Dialect Society (1882)
"Knapper [uaap'ur], a doorknocker. Wh. Gl. ; gen. Also, aa a v. ». to talk with
persistent volubility. ..."
3. The New England Historical and Genealogical Register by Henry Fritz-Gilbert Waters (1894)
"... parapets and battlements, of coats of arms, of specimens of antique furniture
and table-ware, and one of the identical brazen-nose doorknocker— of date ..."
4. Chief Contemporary Dramatists, Second Series: Eighteen Plays from the Recent by Thomas Herbert Dickinson (1921)
"THE DUENNA. See! . . . See! they have muffled the door-knocker! [Го the doorknocker.]
You have been gagged, that your voice should not disturb ..."
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