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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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Etymology of 'Pickle'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Pickle" Quotes from Famous Books

... some evening— say Thursday—at 20 Great Russell Street, Cov't Garden. If you can come, do not trouble yourself to write. We are old fashiond people who drink tea at six, or not much later, and give cold mutton and pickle at nine, the good old hour. I assure you (if it suit you) we shall ...

— The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb (Vol. 6) - Letters 1821-1842 • Charles and Mary Lamb

... and on he flew, and the earth seemed to slide away beneath them like a cloud. On and on he flew until he had come to the farthest part of the desert. There he sat them both down, and it was as pretty a pickle as ever the king or Jacob Stuck had been in, in all of their lives. Then the Genie flew back again whence he ...

— Twilight Land • Howard Pyle

... over, we all go down in what Potts claims is the grand saloon and Van Aylstyne, the hick that wrote the picture, reads it to us. It starts off showin' the Kid workin' in a pickle factory on the East Side in New York. They're only slippin' him five berries a week and out of that he's keepin' his widowed mother and seven of her children. One day he finds a newspaper and all over the front page is a article tellin' about all the money the welterweight champion is makin', ...

— Kid Scanlan • H. C. Witwer

... a long time toiling up; and the head guide looks oddly about him when one of the company—not an Italian, tho an habitue of the mountain for many years: whom we will call, for our present purpose, Mr. Pickle of Portici—suggests that, as it is freezing hard, and the usual footing of ashes is covered by the snow and ice, it will surely be difficult to descend. But the sight of the litters above, tilting up, and down, and jerking from this side to that, ...

— Seeing Europe with Famous Authors, Vol VIII - Italy and Greece, Part Two • Various

... ranks according to social precedence, after the band on the lawn outside had serenaded the happy couple, and after further interminable handshaking and congratulations, from those outside, after the long line of invited guests had filed past the imposing vista of pickle dishes, cutlery, butter dishes and cake plates, reaching around the walls of three bedrooms,—to say nothing of an elaborate wax representation of nesting cupids bearing the card of the Belgian Society from the glass works and sent, according to the card, to "Mlle. ...

— In the Heart of a Fool • William Allen White

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