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Picklock   Listen
noun
Picklock  n.  
1.
An instrument for picking locks.
2.
One who picks locks; a thief. "A picklock of secrets."





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"Picklock" Quotes from Famous Books



... this impression of the key in wax. Knowing how to do mischief is very different from wishing to do it: and the most innocent persons are generally the least ignorant. By means of the impression, which they had thus obtained, Corkscrew and Felix proposed to get a false key made by Picklock, a smith who belonged to their gang of house-breakers; and with this false key knew they could open the ...
— The Parent's Assistant • Maria Edgeworth
... A picklock lay on the floor, which told me how she had gained entrance in the night. And that was the one trace I could find of ...
— The Lock And Key Library - Classic Mystery And Detective Stories, Modern English • Various


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