picklock

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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

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

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 Fenn, George Manville

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