picklock

Example Sentences

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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

The workman had not made any reply, and the sergeant spoke again as a large picklock was thrust into the keyhole again and again.

From Witness to the Deed by Fenn, George Manville

Jimmie Dale's hand, a picklock in it again, clenched fiercely.

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