picklock
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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."
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What is a picklock compared to a debenture share?
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The cockiest picklock in the U. S. last week signed a Europe-bound steamship's register: Charles Courtney, New York.
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Then, in the coolest manner possible, he took the other’s place, and tried key after key, picklock after picklock, and ended by throwing all into the bag with a growl of disgust.
From The Dark House A Knot Unravelled by George Manville Fenn
Any common blacksmith, with a picklock in his possession, laughed at the combined skill of the two houses of parliament.
From Practical Education, Volume I by Maria Edgeworth