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

Beneath the mask his face drew into chiselled lines, as the picklock silently locked the door.

From The Further Adventures of Jimmie Dale by Packard, Frank L. (Frank Lucius)

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