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Pickle barrel   /pˈɪkəl bˈærəl/   Listen
Pickle barrel

noun
1.
A barrel holding vinegar in which cucumbers are pickled.





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"Pickle barrel" Quotes from Famous Books



... case where we were all in the same fix, and personal spite shouldn't count for anything, but King was leaning against the wheel of his buggy, cramming tobacco into his stubby pipe—the same one apparently that I had rescued from the pickle barrel—and, seeing the wind scatter half of it broadcast, as though he didn't care a rap whether he got solid earth beneath his feet once more, or went floating down the river. I wanted to propose a truce for such time as it would take to get ...
— The Range Dwellers • B. M. Bower
... probably the most important of the herbs whose seeds, rather than their leaves, are used in flavoring food other than confectionery. It plays its chief role in the pickle barrel. Immense quantities of cucumber pickles flavored principally with dill are used in the restaurants of the larger cities and also by families, the foreign-born citizens and their descendants being the chief consumers. The demand ...
— Culinary Herbs: Their Cultivation Harvesting Curing and Uses • M. G. Kains


Words linked to "Pickle barrel" :   barrel, cask


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