Picklock

Definitions

1. A device designed to pick locks.
2. One who picks locks; a thief.

Equivalents

Examples

“Marry⟳, 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 to the deputy.”

“1664-1667, Jeremy Taylor, Dissuasive from Popery a picklock of secrets”

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