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Picklock vs Cracksman - What's the difference?

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Picklock is a related term of cracksman.


As nouns the difference between picklock and cracksman

is that picklock is a device designed to pick locks while cracksman is (archaic|informal) a burglar or safebreaker.

picklock

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • A device designed to pick locks.
  • * 1623 (date of publication), , Act III,
    • 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.
  • * Jeremy Taylor
    • A picklock of secrets.

    Synonyms

    * lock pick * pick

    Anagrams

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    cracksman

    English

    Noun

    (cracksmen)
  • (archaic, informal) A burglar or safebreaker.
  • *
    • She was frankly disappointed. For some reason she had thought to discover a burglar of one or another accepted type—either a dashing cracksman in full-blown evening dress, lithe, polished, pantherish, or a common yegg, a red-eyed, unshaven burly brute in the rags and tatters of a tramp.