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 Stephen, Leslie, Sir

Oddly enough the picklock to the captives' minds had been produced by the dolphins.

From Key Out of Time by Norton, Andre