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A lock that cannot be opened unless certain chosen letters are arranged in a certain order.
“A strange lock that opens with A MEN.”
Beaumont and Fletcher: Noble Gentleman.
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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.
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