picklock
Example Sentences
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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
What is a picklock compared to a debenture share?
From Time Magazine Archive
I was no picklock; I had flattered myself that nothing, and no one, could make me such a thing.
From The Beetle by Marsh, Richard
And if intentional mystification be admitted, the doors of enquiry, after three hundred and fifty years, are practically sealed to the critical picklock.
From The Dance of Death by Dobson, Austin
