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

The workman had not made any reply, and the sergeant spoke again as a large picklock was thrust into the keyhole again and again.

From Witness to the Deed by Fenn, George Manville

There is an enchanted, hidden spot in the human soul, fastened with seven locks, which no one and nothing but that picklock, bitter adversity, can open.

From Selected Polish Tales by Busch, Marie