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Pickle   /pˈɪkəl/   Listen
noun
Pickle  n.  (Obs.) See Picle.


Pickle  n.  
1.
(a)
A solution of salt and water, in which fish, meat, etc., may be preserved or corned; brine.
(b)
Vinegar, plain or spiced, used for preserving vegetables, fish, eggs, oysters, etc.
2.
Any article of food which has been preserved in brine or in vinegar.
3.
(Founding) A bath of dilute sulphuric or nitric acid, etc., to remove burnt sand, scale rust, etc., from the surface of castings, or other articles of metal, or to brighten them or improve their color.
4.
A troublesome child; as, a little pickle. (Colloq.)
To be in a pickle, to be in disagreeable position; to be in a condition of embarrassment, difficulty, or disorder. "How cam'st thou in this pickle?"
To put a rod in pickle, to prepare a particular reproof, punishment, or penalty for future application.


Picle  n.  (Written also pickle)  A small piece of land inclosed with a hedge; a close. (Obs.)


verb
Pickle  v. t.  (past & past part. pickled; pres. part. pickling)  
1.
To preserve or season in pickle; to treat with some kind of pickle; as, to pickle herrings or cucumbers.
2.
To give an antique appearance to; said of copies or imitations of paintings by the old masters.





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"Pickle" Quotes from Famous Books



... so hospitable a home to go where, to say the least of it, one was not wanted. Especially was it so when the sturdy farmer, grasping Brown's hand, said with a certain shamefacedness, "There's a pickle siller that I do not ken what to do wi', after Ailie has gotten her new goon and the bairns their winter duds. But I was thinking, that whiles you army gentlemen can buy yoursel's up a step. If ye wad tak the siller, a bit scrape o' a pen wad be as guid to me. Ye could take your ain time about ...
— Red Cap Tales - Stolen from the Treasure Chest of the Wizard of the North • Samuel Rutherford Crockett
... of it again. I have never seen the King so wrathful. I suppose it was partly because the Lady Katharine so cossetted them. She was always in the church at the night-office when the Court was at Greenwich, and Friar Forrest, you know, was her confessor. There is a rod in pickle." ...
— The King's Achievement • Robert Hugh Benson
... after he'd thought o' the plan he went right to work to carry it out. He says it was one o' them plans as dilly-dally is death on. So he begun by makin' sure as she was pastin' labels on pickle-jars in the back wood-house 'n' then he went out by the shed 'n' got some old clothes-line as was hangin' there 'n' come round to where the bingin'-pole was 'n' whittled notches in it 'n' tied a piece o' the ...
— Susan Clegg and Her Neighbors' Affairs • Anne Warner
... of spoiling my pupil," laughed Dick, stretching himself. "I'll have to be doubly stern to counteract the evil influences, Norah. You can prepare for awful times. When next Monday comes, Mr. Linton—may it be soon!—you can say good-bye to your pickle of a daughter. She will come out from my mill ground into the most approved type of young lady—accomplishments, prunes and ...
— A Little Bush Maid • Mary Grant Bruce
... that Charming Billy decided to have a word. "Here, break away, there!" he yelled, pushing the belligerent sheepherder to one side. "Hands off that long person! That there's my dill pickle!" ...
— The Long Shadow • B. M. Bower


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