cracksman

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And yet we have seen this cracksman captain—for he, too, was a captain at times—jostling and bellowing for odds among some of the highest and noblest of the land!

From Mr. Sponge's Sporting Tour by Surtees, Robert Smith

You may admire the exploits of a “gentleman” cracksman or pickpocket, if you hear or read them with only their ingenuity put before you.

From Ainslee's, Vol. 15, No. 6, July 1905 by Various

All we regret is, that we are now degenerated from the grand tobyman to the cracksman and the sneak, about whom there are no redeeming features.

From Rookwood by Ainsworth, William Harrison

Next morning the suspected prisoners were searched, and the lock-picking instruments were found on the "cracksman," and there the affair ended.

From Six Years in the Prisons of England by Henderson, Frank

We were flattered by the attentions of a celebrated cracksman.

From Nell, of Shorne Mills or, One Heart's Burden by Garvice, Charles