Pickel vs. Pickle

Pickel

Misspelling of pickle.

Picklenoun

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

‘A pickle goes well with a hamburger.’;

Picklenoun

Any vegetable preserved in vinegar and consumed as relish.

Picklenoun

The brine used for preserving food.

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

Picklenoun

(informal) A difficult situation; peril.

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

Picklenoun

(affectionate) A mildly mischievous loved one.

Picklenoun

(baseball) A rundown.

‘Jones was caught in a pickle between second and third.’;

Picklenoun

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

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

Picklenoun

(slang) A penis.

Picklenoun

(slang) A pipe for smoking methamphetamine.

‘Load some shards in that pickle.’;

Picklenoun

(metalworking) 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.

Picklenoun

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

Picklenoun

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

Picklenoun

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.

Pickleverb

To preserve food in a salt, sugar or vinegar solution.

‘We pickled the remainder of the crop.’; ‘These cucumbers pickle very well.’;

Pickleverb

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

‘The crew will pickle the fittings in the morning.’;

Pickleverb

(programming) (in the Python programming language) To serialize.

Pickleverb

To eat sparingly.

Pickleverb

To pilfer.

Picklenoun

See Picle.

Picklenoun

A solution of salt and water, in which fish, meat, etc., may be preserved or corned; brine.

Picklenoun

Any article of food which has been preserved in brine or in vinegar.

Picklenoun

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 color.

Picklenoun

A troublesome child; as, a little pickle.

Pickleverb

To preserve or season in pickle; to treat with some kind of pickle; as, to pickle herrings or cucumbers.

Pickleverb

To give an antique appearance to; - said of copies or imitations of paintings by the old masters.

Picklenoun

vegetables (especially cucumbers) preserved in brine or vinegar

Picklenoun

informal terms for a difficult situation;

‘he got into a terrible fix’; ‘he made a muddle of his marriage’;

Pickleverb

preserve in a pickling liquid

Picklenoun

a relish consisting of vegetables or fruit preserved in vinegar or brine

‘cheese and pickle’; ‘assorted pickles’;

Picklenoun

a pickled cucumber.

Picklenoun

liquid used to preserve food or other perishable items.

Picklenoun

a difficult situation

‘I am in a pickle’;

Picklenoun

used as an affectionate form of address to a mischievous child

‘‘All right, me pickle’, said Dad’;

Picklenoun

an acid solution for cleaning metal objects.

Pickleverb

preserve (food or other perishable items) in vinegar or brine

‘fish pickled in brine’;

Pickleverb

immerse (a metal object) in an acid or other chemical solution for cleaning

‘the steel sheet is first pickled in acid to remove all oxides’;