picklock

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What is a picklock compared to a debenture share?

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

The cockiest picklock in the U. S. last week signed a Europe-bound steamship's register: Charles Courtney, New York.

From Time Magazine Archive

Now I could distinctly hear someone fumbling gently at the keyhole, apparently with a picklock.

From The Uttermost Farthing A Savant's Vendetta by Freeman, R. Austin (Richard Austin)

When they saw the little tailor, they thought, "A little fellow like that can creep through a key-hole and serve as picklock to us."

From Household Tales by Brothers Grimm by Hunt, Margaret