knocker

The knocker appeared to hear the response, and to assert that it was quite impossible he could wait so long.

Aristide, however, went up to the door; as there was neither knocker nor bell, he rapped with his knuckles.

At the bottom of Knocker's Bay is a shoal mangrove opening, of no importance.

When I am dead the knocker will pass into other hands equally persistent with those of the mighty men who handed it to me.

This was of oak after a design of his own, and was wide and massive, with hinges of wrought-iron and a dragon's-head knocker.