Definition of door knocker in US English:
door knocker
noundɔ(ə)r ˈnɑkərdɔ(ə)r ˈnɑkər
A metal or wooden instrument hinged to a door and rapped by visitors to attract attention and gain entry.
Example sentencesExamples
- Transforming the building into a tea room has involved the restoration of many of its original Georgian features right down to its brass door knocker.
- In all my years I would have never guessed he lived behind a door with a door knocker of that appearance on it.
- Paint the front door and polish your street number, door knocker, and mailbox.
- There's no doorbell, so she raises the brass door knocker and raps it a few times.
- It had a cement walkway going to the front door, steps that led into the house and a brass door knocker that was very old.
- He had hated the house the moment he saw it - a showy, gold-trimmed monstrosity whose gilded door knocker and audacious balconies and turrets breathed wealth.
- Her time away had sharpened her eyes so that she could no longer overlook the tarnished brass door knocker or the window shutter hanging by one rusted hinge.
- I loved the cover with a gold door knocker on a dark-blue background, but the sales reps decreed it too safe.
- Turning her eyes away from the artistic grounds, she pulled the door knocker a little harder than she intended in her haste.
- Entering the courtyard of the town's mosque, she pointed out the two door knockers.
- I have in my possession a very old door knocker which appears to have been hand made.
- He has a colorful front door decorated with a pair of door knockers in the shape of a lion's head and a long, rounded bamboo bench.
- A wreath that fills a window looks better than one that just hides the door knocker.
- Thinking that no one would have heard a measly door knocker in such a massive house, she proceeded to knock three times more, harder.
- There is a ruined brass door knocker in the shape of a swan.
- On the cover is a bronze door knocker composed of two bears.
- Attach electric jumper cables to your door knocker.
- I raised my hand and placed it on the little door knocker, lifting it.
- She looked up and was overwhelmed at how big the door was and how fancy it looked with the dragon head door knocker and the Chinese patterns.
- She reached the Mayor's house and banged the door knocker twice.