pick-lock

Updated: May 21, 2025

This marine was one of the most villainous-looking fellows in the ship, with a squinting, pick-lock, gray eye, and hang-dog gallows gait. How such a most unmartial vagabond had insinuated himself into the honourable marine corps was a perfect mystery.

Herman Melville - White Jacket: or, the World on a Man-of-War