Knocker

Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

·add. ·noun A person strikingly handsome, beautiful, or fine; one who wins admiration; a "stunner.".

II. Knocker ·noun One who, or that which, knocks; specifically, an instrument, or kind of hammer, fastened to a door, to be used in seeking for admittance.

III. Knocker ·add. ·noun A species of large cockroach, ·esp. Blabera gigantea, of semitropical America, which as able to produce a loud knocking sound.

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