pickle

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

• noun An edible product, such as a cucumber, that has been preserved and flavored in a solution of brine or vinegar.
• noun A solution of brine or vinegar, often spiced, for preserving and flavoring food.
• noun A chemical solution, such as an acid, that is used as a bath to remove scale and oxides from the surface of metals before plating or finishing.
• noun Informal A disagreeable or troublesome situation; a plight. synonym: predicament.
• noun Baseball A rundown.
• transitive verb To preserve or flavor (food) in a solution of brine or vinegar.
• transitive verb To treat (metal) in a chemical bath.

from The Century Dictionary.

• To pick.
• To glean.
• To eat sparingly or squeamishly; pick.
• To commit small thefts; pilfer.
• noun A grain of corn; any minute particle; a small quantity; a few.
• noun A hay-fork.
• noun A small piece of land inclosed with a hedge; an inclosure; a close.
• noun A solution of salt and sulphuric acid in which skins are packed to preserve them. Sometimes other ingredients are used.
• noun A solution of salt and water in which flesh, fish, or other substance is preserved; brine.
• noun Vinegar, sometimes impregnated with spices, in which vegetables, fish, oysters, etc., are preserved.
• noun A thing preserved in pickle (in either of the above senses); specifically, a pickled cucumber.
• noun In founding, a bath of dilute sulphuric acid, or, for brass, of dilute nitric acid, to remove the sand and impurities from the surface.
• noun A state or condition of difficulty or disorder; a disagreeable position; a plight.
• noun A troublesome child.
• To preserve in pickle or brine; treat with pickle; also, to preserve or put up with vinegar, etc.: as, to pickle herring; to pickle onions.
• To imbue highly with anything bad: as, a pickled rogue.
• To prepare, as an imitation, and sell as genuine; give an antique appearance to: said of copies or imitations of paintings by the old masters.
• To subject, as various hardware articles, to the action of certain chemical agents in the process of manufacture.
• To treat with brine or pickle, as nets, to keep them from rotting.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

• noun See picle.
• transitive verb To preserve or season in pickle; to treat with some kind of pickle.
• transitive verb To give an antique appearance to; -- said of copies or imitations of paintings by the old masters.
• noun A solution of salt and water, in which fish, meat, etc., may be preserved or corned; brine.
• noun Vinegar, plain or spiced, used for preserving vegetables, fish, eggs, oysters, etc.
• noun Any article of food which has been preserved in brine or in vinegar.
• noun (Founding) 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.
• noun colloq. A troublesome child.
• noun to be in disagreeable position; to be in a condition of embarrassment, difficulty, or disorder.
• noun to prepare a particular reproof, punishment, or penalty for future application.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

• noun Scotland A kernel, grain
• noun Scotland A bit, small quantity
• noun A cucumber preserved in a solution, usually a brine or a vinegar syrup.
• noun , any vegetable preserved in vinegar and consumed as relish.
• noun The brine used for preserving food.
• noun A difficult situation, peril.
• noun An affectionate term for a mildly mischievous loved one
• noun baseball A rundown.
• noun A children’s game with three participants that emulates a baseball rundown
• noun slang A penis.
• verb To preserve food in a salt, sugar or vinegar solution.
• verb To remove high-temperature scale and oxidation from metal with heated (often sulphuric) industrial acid.
• verb programming (in the Python programming language) To serialize.