picklock
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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
Nay, sir," said Johnson, "conversation is the key, wine is a picklock, which forces open the box and injures it.
From Samuel Johnson by Sir Leslie Stephen
I was no picklock; I had flattered myself that nothing, and no one, could make me such a thing.
From The Beetle by Richard Marsh
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