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Doorknob   /dˈurnɑb/   Listen
Doorknob

noun
1.
A knob used to release the catch when opening a door (often called 'doorhandle' in Great Britain).  Synonym: doorhandle.






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"Doorknob" Quotes from Famous Books



... go up two flights of stairs, and as she reached the top of the second flight she was near her own classroom. As she turned the doorknob, the street door, downstairs, which she had left open, suddenly slammed shut with a loud bang. The sound reverberated through the building, and Midget stood still, shaking with an unconquerable nervous dread. She didn't know whether ...
— Marjorie's Busy Days • Carolyn Wells

... lifted his shoe and tried to reply, but he only gave a respectful sob. So he turned away and crept back to his home in the prose-bush—where, all this time, his wife had been sitting in plain sight on her own toadstool, grimly hemming the doorknob. At her feet lay ...
— The Garden of the Plynck • Karle Wilson Baker



Words linked to "Doorknob" :   knob, outside door, exterior door, Britain, UK, U.K., United Kingdom, Great Britain, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland



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