Word Finder - pickle

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A cucumber preserved in a solution, usually a brine or a vinegar syrup.

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A pickle goes well with a hamburger.

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(often in the plural) Any vegetable preserved in vinegar and consumed as relish.

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The brine used for preserving food.

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This tub is filled with the pickle that we will put the small cucumbers into.

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A difficult situation; peril.

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The climber found himself in a pickle when one of the rocks broke off.

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A mildly mischievous loved one.

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A rundown.

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Jones was caught in a pickle between second and third.

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A children’s game with three participants that emulates a baseball rundown

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The boys played pickle in the front yard for an hour.

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A penis.

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A pipe for smoking methamphetamine.

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Load some shards in that pickle.

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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 colour.

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In an optical landing system, the hand-held controller connected to the lens, or apparatus on which the lights are mounted.

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

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These cucumbers pickle very well.

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

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The crew will pickle the fittings in the morning.

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(in the Python programming language) To serialize.

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

Which leaves the gunners in a bit of a pickle.

The first person to recognize the hidden pickle receives an extra gift.

Increase the amount of garlic to deepen the sour taste of the pickle.

I can fight patriarchy one pickle jar at a time.

I aim to do the same next year, but I wish I had his recipe for sweet pickle.

The European Central Bank is in a real pickle.

Glass pickle ornaments are traditional German gifts.

These are areas where rot can enter the pickle, spoiling it quickly.

Add some hot banana peppers to the mix to spice up the original pickle brine a bit more.

You find these podcasts in various podcast directories, such as Podcast Pickle.

The defender, otherwise faultless, had got himself in a pickle about what to do with a long ball over the top.

Brookfield is in a bit of a pickle, everyone's late and rushed and generally fractious.

I am afraid they will eat me and put my dead brother in a pickle jar.

I think I enjoyed the Sunday's Bubble and Squeak better than the main roast itself, especially with home made pickle.

Put stem ginger, ginger syrup, olive oil, lime juice and lime pickle in a blender and whizz until smooth.

Soak the chillies in brine first then pickle in vinegar.

After the tree is decorated, the pickle is hidden.

Some gardeners swear by adding pickle juice to their gardenia soil.

You're going to need vinegar to pickle them and I like cider vinegar.

Bags by Juicy Couture, Petunia Pickle Bottom, Caden Lane Baby, and more can be purchased.

This is a fun project that you can use empty mayonnaise or pickle jars for, or you can buy some inexpensive glass vases for the activity.

Paul's is probably most famous for their sour pickle selection, of which they have several varieties to choose from!

Look for firm, ripe pickling cucumbers and go over them with a fine toothed comb before you pickle them.

This was followed in 1898 by The Companions of Pickle, and in 1900 by a monograph on Prince Charles Edward.

Dilute at a ratio of one cup vinegar or pickle juice to one gallon of water and use it to water your gardenias once a month.

This recipe has been called a science experiment by some and genius by others, but whichever way you look at it, it makes a spicy homemade pickle.

Of later origin are the jam, pickle and potted meat factories, hundreds of acres having been laid down in strawberries and other fruits within a few miles of the city.

He gave new information about the continental career of the Young Pretender in Pickle the Spy (1897), an account of Alastair Ruadh Macdonell, whom he identified with Pickle, a notorious Hanoverian spy.

Heinz Company has its main pickle plant, the largest establishment of the kind in the country.