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

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 Edgeworth, Maria