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The correct spelling is pickling.
How to pronounce pickling
verb
IPA: /ˈpɪk.lɪŋ/
Say it like: Pik-lin-g
The correct spelling is pickling. To preserve food (or sometimes other things) in a salt, sugar or vinegar solution. For example: "These cucumbers pickle very well."
Usage Examples
“These cucumbers pickle very well.”
“The crew will pickle the fittings in the morning.”
Meanings
verb
- 1.To preserve food (or sometimes other things) in a salt, sugar or vinegar solution.
- 2.To remove high-temperature scale and oxidation from metal with heated (often sulphuric) industrial acid.
- 3.(in the Python programming language) To serialize.
- 4.To pour brine over a person after flogging them, as a method of punishment.
- 5.To eat sparingly.
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).
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