Pickled

verb

Word Frequency: 0.6

Definitions

1.verbTo preserve food (or sometimes other things) in a salt, sugar or vinegar solution.

"These cucumbers pickle very well."

2.verbTo remove high-temperature scale and oxidation from metal with heated (often sulphuric) industrial acid.

"The crew will pickle the fittings in the morning."

3.verb(in the Python programming language) To serialize.

4.verbTo pour brine over a person after flogging them, as a method of punishment.

5.verbTo eat sparingly.

6.verbTo pilfer.

7.adjectivePreserved by pickling.

8.adjectiveDrunk.

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