picklock
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picklock (plural picklocks)
- A device designed to pick locks.
- c. 1603–1604 (date written), William Shakespeare, “Measure for Measure”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, (please specify the scene number in lowercase Roman numerals)]:
- 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.
- One who picks locks; a thief.
- 1664-1667, Jeremy Taylor, Dissuasive from Popery
- a picklock of secrets
- 1664-1667, Jeremy Taylor, Dissuasive from Popery
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device designed to pick locks
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