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Pickling

/ˈpɪk.lɪŋ/

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

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📖 Definitions of "Pickling"

verb

1
To preserve food (or sometimes other things) in a salt, sugar or vinegar solution.
"These cucumbers pickle very well."
2
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
(in the Python programming language) To serialize.
4
To pour brine over a person after flogging them, as a method of punishment.

verb

1
To eat sparingly.
2
To pilfer.

noun

1
An instance of processing something in brine or other solution.
2
A process by which the oxide scale on steel (especially stainless steels) is chemically removed (by strong acids).

💡 Words with a Similar Meaning to "Pickling"

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Word	Definition
jamnoun	(less common in the US) A sweet mixture of fruit boiled with sugar and allowed to congeal. Often spread on bread or toast or used in jam tarts
holenoun	A hollow place or cavity; an excavation; a pit; a dent; a depression; a fissure.
fixnoun	A difficult situation; a quandary or dilemma; a predicament.
muddlenoun	A mixture; a confusion; a garble.
messnoun	a thing or group of things in a disagreeable, disorganised, or dirty state; hence a bad situation
kettle of fishnoun	(idiomatic) An awkward situation.
scouringnoun	The act of cleaning a surface by rubbing it with a brush, soap and water.
etchingnoun	(uncountable) The art of producing an image from a metal plate into which an image or text has been etched with acid.
strippingnoun	The act of one who strips.
marinationnoun	The process of marinating.
salinizationnoun	The addition of salt or brine.
blettingnoun	A fermentation process in certain fruit beyond ripening.
pickling limenoun	(cooking) calcium hydroxide or its solution in water, limewater
souringnoun	The process by which something is made, or becomes, sour; acidification.
salinationnoun	The increase of salt content in soil.
salinificationnoun	The process of becoming saline, or an instance of this.
presoaknoun	An initial soak.
dippingnoun	An act or process of immersing.
canningnoun	The process of preserving food by heat processing in a sealed vessel (a jar or can).
boilerynoun	A buisness (and place of business) that engages primarily in boiling, such as in the boiling of sugarcane juice to make sugar, the boiling of brine to make salt, the boiling of soap or tallow, the boiling of bones to make glue, etc.