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

Example: A pickle goes well with a hamburger.

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

The brine used for preserving food.

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

A difficult situation; peril.

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

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

Example: These cucumbers pickle very well.

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

Example: The crew will pickle the fittings in the morning.

(in the Python programming language) To serialize.

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

A kernel; a grain (of salt, sugar, etc.)

A small or indefinite quantity or amount (of something); a little, a bit, a few. Usually in partitive construction, frequently without "of"; a single grain or kernel of wheat, barley, oats, sand or dust.

To eat sparingly.

To pilfer.