pickling
Pronunciation:
/ˈpɪk.lɪŋ/verb
Definitions
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.
verb
Definitions
To eat sparingly.
To pilfer.
noun
Definitions
An instance of processing something in brine or other solution.
A process by which the oxide scale on steel (especially stainless steels) is chemically removed (by strong acids).