picklock
Example Sentences
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What is a picklock compared to a debenture share?
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
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
But we possess a picklock, you must know, Able to open where the key avails not.
From Love's Comedy by Herford, C. H. (Charles Harold)
Now I could distinctly hear someone fumbling gently at the keyhole, apparently with a picklock.
From The Uttermost Farthing A Savant's Vendetta by Freeman, R. Austin (Richard Austin)
