What is "cracksmen"

Usage examples of "cracksmen".

The first that either of the cracksmen knew that they were not alone in the office was the sudden and painful descent of the walking stick across be back of the head of one of them.

Those cracksmen most assuredly cracked something belonging to Ogden Secor beside his safe.

Of course, he knew many of the men in there, and might be supposed to have had an easy time among them—except that, here was a funny thing: the fingersmiths and cracksmen who had been so grateful to get an extra shilling from him on the outside, now quite turned against him.

You can't apply for cracksmen to the ordinary labour exchange, or advertise for them in The Times, and if you're a respectable amateur you haven't any among your intimate friends.

Last summer in Paris with the Greenes you must have chanced to hear, of Pillard, the Apache, one of the most noted cracksmen the world has ever produced.