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

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

As he spoke he drew a picklock from his pocket—his father was an ironmonger—deliberately opened the schoolroom door, slipped out, and locked it behind him.

From Ranald Bannerman's Boyhood by MacDonald, George

I know them; I have the key, or the picklock to their minds.

From The Absentee by Edgeworth, Maria