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 tested the locks and found them perfect; there were no marks or indications of any picklock having been used.
From The Red Thumb Mark by Freeman, R. Austin (Richard Austin)
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)
