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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



... with: which he had just plentifully moistened the whole internals of the passage. Redoubling, then, the active energy of his thrusts, favoured by the fervid appetency of my motions, the soft oiled wards can no longer stand so effectual a picklock, but yield, and open him an entrance. And now, with conspiring nature, and my industry, strong to aid him, he pierces, penetrates, and at length, winning his way inch by inch, gets entirely in, and finally, a home made thrust ...
— Memoirs Of Fanny Hill - A New and Genuine Edition from the Original Text (London, 1749) • John Cleland



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