knocker informal
knocker-up informal

Then we walked up to the door, used the knocker.

I know what a knocker is, as everybody else does.

It seems like I've spent my whole career with knockers.

I went for the knocker, but they had thought of that too.

He took the steps quickly and used the door knocker.

The key to the family home could also be used as a knocker.

Something seemed to tell me who was at the end of that knocker.

Of course, he told himself, a house like this would have a knocker.

The house had a green front door with a knocker and six steps.

Must be an old knocker, but its in pretty good shape.

She wouldn't expect him at this hour and so he used the knocker.

This was necessary since the door knocker might not be heard throughout the house.

In some shops you can get away with a few knockers.

She hesitated before using the knocker for the third time.

God, her knockers have been in just about every publication under the sun!

He went to the front door and raising the knocker, let it fall.

At that moment the knocker was sounded, opened the door.

He had barely let the knocker fall when she appeared.

For all I know, you got a mike hung between your knockers.

But his hand was still on the knocker, and he pounded with greater energy than before.

Remotely, he heard the large knocker at the front door sound.

Outside its door he took a deep breath, then sounded the knocker.

I only had to knock once before she opened a white door with a black 26 on the knocker.

After all, wasn't the knocker in the shape of a cross?

In return, the knocker-up would be paid a few pence a week.

A knocker-up's job was to rouse sleeping people so they could get to work on time.

The knocker-up would not leave a client's window until they were sure that the client had been awoken.

A photograph of Mary Smith, a knocker-up, was his first published photograph.

In the village a knocker-up was employed in the 1880s and for over 50 years ensured that people attended the early Sunday morning classes.

I also remember how the knocker-up went around the streets banging at bedroom windows with a long stick to wake the occupants in time to get to work.

Hindle Wakes a play written by Stanley Houghton and then a movie (of the same title) directed by Maurice Elvey, includes a knocker-up.

The profession of a knocker-up is documentated and explained in an episode of The Worst Jobs in History, in the Industrial Revolution episode.

The knocker-up used a truncheon or short, heavy stick to knock on the clients' doors or a long and light stick, often made of bamboo, to reach windows on higher floors.

Built in the days when the knocker-up came to each house to wake the workers, miners could chalk the times of their shifts on the slates so that the knocker-up could let them sleep if they were not due for work when he came by.