picklock

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

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"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"

From pick + lock.

picklocks (plural)

lock pick pick

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