In Victorian towns, knocker ups were hired to wake factory workers before mechanical alarm clocks became common.

In the early industrial town, knocker-ups tapped on bedroom windows until dawn to make sure factory workers woke on time.

In Victorian towns, knockers up earned their wages by tapping on workers' bedroom windows at dawn.

The tin knockers finished the roof before the storm rolled in.

The pork knockers returned to the river with tales of a rich new seam.

The pork-knocker trekked through the rainforest, hoping to find a rich vein before the rainy season began.

The old fighters still talked about those slobber-knockers from the '90s that left everyone breathless.

The championship match turned into a slobber-knocker that left both fighters exhausted and the crowd on its feet.

The city council dismissed the complaints of the apple-knockers as uninformed nostalgia.

They called him an apple-knocker at the state fair, but he wore his rural roots like a badge of honor.