picklock

picklock

English

Etymology

pick +‎ lock

Noun

picklock (plural picklocks)

1. 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 606515358, [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.

2. One who picks locks; a thief.
   • 1664-1667, Jeremy Taylor, Dissuasive from Popery

     a picklock of secrets

Synonyms

• lock pick
• pick

Translations

device designed to pick locks

Bulgarian: шперц m (šperc) Catalan: rossinyol (ca) m Czech: paklíč m, šperhák m Dalmatian: bunagrez m Finnish: tiirikka (fi) German: Dietrich (de) m Norwegian: dirk (no) m Russian: отмы́чка (ru) f (otmýčka) (passkey), фо́мка (ru) f (fómka) (jimmy) Slovak: pakľúč m Spanish: ganzúa (es) f Swedish: dyrk (sv) Turkish: maymuncuk (tr)

Anagrams

• lock pick, lock-pick, lockpick