pickled

Verb (1)

pickle (third-person singular simple present pickles, present participle pickling, simple past and past participle pickled)

1. (ergative, transitive) To preserve food (or sometimes other things) in a salt, sugar or vinegar solution.
   • We pickled the remainder of the crop.

   Synonyms:

   pickle up, souse

2. (transitive) To remove high-temperature scale and oxidation from metal with heated (often sulphuric) industrial acid.
   • The crew will pickle the fittings in the morning.
3. To serialize.
   • You can now restore the pickled data. If you like, close your Python interpreter and open a new instance, to convince yourself […]2005, Peter Norton, et al: Beginning Python
4. (historical) To pour brine over a person after flogging them, as a method of punishment.
   • On Wednesday 26 May, […] I had [an enslaved man] flogged and pickled and then made Hector shit in his mouth. […] In July, […] Gave [another enslaved man] a moderate whipping, pickled him well, made Hector shit in his mouth, […]1756, Thomas Thistlewood, diary, quoted in 2001, Glyne A. Griffith, Caribbean Cultural Identities, Bucknell University Press, page 38

Verb (2)

pickle (third-person singular simple present pickles, present participle pickling, simple past and past participle pickled)

1. (Northern England, Scotland, ambitransitive) To eat sparingly.
2. (Northern England, Scotland, ambitransitive) To pilfer.

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