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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'

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"Pickle" Quotes from Famous Books

... was hungry, but the cooling wreck of a leg of mutton and the cold vegetables swimming in water did not appeal to her, and she went slowly upstairs, helping herself in passing to no more substantial luncheon than two soda crackers and a large green pickle. ...

— The Story Of Julia Page - Works of Kathleen Norris, Volume V. • Kathleen Norris

... me and tells me this story. 'I have found out your fine gentleman, and a fine gentleman he was,' says she; 'but, mercy on him, he is in a sad pickle now. I wonder what the d—l you have done to him; why, you have almost killed him.' I looked at her with disorder enough. 'I killed him!' says I; 'you must mistake the person; I am sure I did nothing to him; he was very well when I left him,' said I, 'only drunk and fast asleep.' ...

— The Fortunes and Misfortunes of the Famous Moll Flanders &c. • Daniel Defoe

... addressed, as it were, to the world at large—a triumphal arch — the pillar at Blenheim—the monument on the field of Waterloo: but a Latin epitaph in an English church, appears, in principle, as absurd as the dinner, which the doctor gives in Peregrine Pickle, 'after the manner of the ancients.' A mortal may surely be well satisfied if his fame lasts as long as the language in which ...

— The Letters of Horace Walpole Volume 3 • Horace Walpole

... that he was fickle, Was that great oak tree, She was in a pretty pickle, As she well might be - But his gallantries were mickle, For Death followed with his sickle, And her tears began to trickle For her great oak tree! Sing hey, Lackaday! Let the tears fall free For the pretty little flower and the great ...

— Songs of a Savoyard • W. S. Gilbert

... the English first began to plant their Colony here, there came an English ship from England for the purpose of fishing for sturgeon; but they found that this fishery would not answer, because it is so hot in summer, which is the best time for fishing, that the salt or pickle would not keep them as in Muscovy whence the English obtain many sturgeon and where the climate is colder than in ...

— The Bounty of the Chesapeake - Fishing in Colonial Virginia • James Wharton

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