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

I know them; I have the key, or the picklock to their minds.

From The Absentee by Edgeworth, Maria

When they saw the little tailor, they thought, "A little fellow like that can creep through a key-hole and serve as picklock to us."

From Household Tales by Brothers Grimm by Hunt, Margaret