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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."





Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48


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"Picklock" Quotes from Famous Books



... lock I was, if necessary, to practise the arts of a thief to open. I was no picklock; I had flattered myself that nothing, and no one, could make me such a thing. Yet now that I found myself confronted by that unyielding flap, I found that pressure, irresistible pressure, was being put upon me to gain, by any and every means, access ...
— The Beetle - A Mystery • Richard Marsh
... sir, he hath offended the law; and, sir, we take him to be a thief too, sir; for we have found upon him, sir, a strange picklock, which we have sent ...
— Measure for Measure • William Shakespeare [Collins edition]


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