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

There is an enchanted, hidden spot in the human soul, fastened with seven locks, which no one and nothing but that picklock, bitter adversity, can open.

From Selected Polish Tales by Busch, Marie

In an instant his picklock was at work; in another he had opened the door a bare fraction of an inch.

From The Further Adventures of Jimmie Dale by Packard, Frank L. (Frank Lucius)