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noun

knocker 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. "Shut, shut the door, good John! fatigued, I said; Tie up the knocker; say I'm sick, I'm dead."

A person strikingly handsome, beautiful, or fine; one who wins admiration; a "stunner." (Slang.)

A species of large cockroach, especially Blabera gigantea, of semitropical America, which is able to produce a loud knocking sound.

(usually used in pl.) A woman's breast. (vulgar)

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"Knocker" Quotes from Famous Books

... the old-fashioned green door, with its brass knocker, Polly went, running over in her mind just which of the messages she ought to give first. She couldn't for her life think whether "if 'twas a chill he had yesterday?" ought to come before "how he slept?" ...

— Five Little Peppers And How They Grew • Margaret Sidney

... of the sage Peter was a vision of glory to the mother. She already saw Dolph, in her mind's eye, with a cane at his nose, a knocker at his door, and an M.D. at the end of his name—one of the ...

— Bracebridge Hall, or The Humorists • Washington Irving

... boarding-house was the light of Tavistock Place, Bloomsbury. In the brown monotony of the street it stood out splendid, conspicuous. Its door and half its front were painted a beautiful, a remarkable pea-green, while its door knob and door-knocker were of polished brass. Mrs. Downey's boarding-house knew nothing of concealment or disguise. Every evening, at the hour of seven, through its ground-floor window it offered to the world a scene of stupefying brilliance. The blinds were up, the curtains half-drawn, revealing the allurements ...

— The Divine Fire • May Sinclair

... said Silver Jack. "Anybody can do him proper. If that's your 'knocker,' you're a ...

— Blazed Trail Stories - and Stories of the Wild Life • Stewart Edward White

... Sloane, into whose possession, after a lapse of years, and many changes, a portion of Sir Thomas More's property had passed. This Howard had skill in the distilling of herbs and perfumes, which his descendant carries on to this day. We lifted the heavy brass knocker, and were admitted into the "old clock-house." The interior shows evident marks of extreme age, the flooring being ridgy and seamed, bearing their marks with a discontented creaking, like the secret murmurs of ...

— Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Volume 1, No. 3, August, 1850. • Various

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