Pickled
['pɪk(ə)ld] or ['pɪkld]
Definition
(imp. & p. p.) of Pickle
(a.) Preserved in a pickle.
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Examples
- We were to have a superb dinner, consisting of a leg of pickled pork and greens, and a pair of roast stuffed fowls. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
- Mr Fledgeby collapsed under the word 'Pickled,' and groaned again. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- To be sure he does,' said Mr. Weller, senior; 'and it's just the same vith pickled salmon! Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- It looks as if it ought to be Pickled. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- The feet are pickled or converted into glue. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- There was nothing but pickled vermin, and drawers full of blue-bottles and moths, with no carpet on the floor. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- He was very fond of pickled walnuts, gentlemen. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- Two men for pig-stealing, a gentleman for stealing a piece of pickled pork, and concealing it about the lower parts of his person. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
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