picklock
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What is a picklock compared to a debenture share?
From Time Magazine Archive
Der Spiegel's disclosure that an expert picklock from Chancellor Helmut Schmidt's federal intelligence service had helped in the break-in enhanced the impression of a "Watergate am Rhine."
From Time Magazine Archive
The cockiest picklock in the U. S. last week signed a Europe-bound steamship's register: Charles Courtney, New York.
From Time Magazine Archive
As he spoke he drew a picklock from his pocket—his father was an ironmonger—deliberately opened the schoolroom door, slipped out, and locked it behind him.
From Ranald Bannerman's Boyhood by MacDonald, George
In an instant his picklock was at work; in another he had opened the door a bare fraction of an inch.
From The Further Adventures of Jimmie Dale by Packard, Frank L. (Frank Lucius)
