Sentence examples for knocker from inspiring English sources

4. Knocking wood I am a zealous knocker of wood.

But the very next morning the knocker got going again with renewed vim.

Maybe its stuffier members could learn a thing or two from Turkey, a persistent knocker at the EU's door and one that some in the union would prefer never to let in.

The opponent of the knocker may lay off unmatched cards upon the knocker's sets, thereby reducing the opponent's count.

According to the ecclesiastical law of the Middle Ages, a fugitive had only to touch the sanctuary knocker in order to be immune from arrest.

The sanctuary knocker could be a simple metal ring, which accounts for its other name of sanctuary ring, or it could be highly ornamental, as in the Norman example at Durham cathedral in England, dating from the turn of the 12th century.

Should the opponent have an equal or lesser count, he has undercut the knocker and receives the difference (if any) plus a bonus of 25 points.

The knocker cannot be undercut if he has gone gin; he receives, in addition to the total points of his opponent's unmatched cards, a bonus of 25 points.

If the knocker has the lower count of unmatched cards, he wins the difference.

I had just announced to my father, as we sat over tea in the dining room, that I must do up Edward's papers and take them to the post office before it closed for the weekend, when there came a sudden loud clattering at the front-door knocker that always meant a telegram.

And I am beginning to know my fettling from my dipping, my bottom-knocker from my saggar, and my slip from my glaze.