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
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
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
