PICKLED

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does pickled mean? 

• PICKLED (adjective)
  The adjective PICKLED has 1 sense:

1. (used of foods) preserved in a pickling liquid

  Familiarity information: PICKLED used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• PICKLED (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

(used of foods) preserved in a pickling liquid

Similar:

preserved (prevented from decaying or spoiling and prepared for future use)

 Context examples 

Why, I owe at least a dozen pickled limes, and I can't pay them, you know, till I have money, for Marmee forbade my having anything charged at the shop.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

We are like to have salt water upon us until we be found pickled like the herrings in an Easterling's barrels.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Foraging about, I found a bottle with some brandy left, for Hands; and for myself I routed out some biscuit, some pickled fruits, a great bunch of raisins, and a piece of cheese.

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

Among them I remember a double set of pigs' trotters, a huge pin-cushion, half a bushel or so of apples, a pair of jet earrings, some Spanish onions, a box of dominoes, a canary bird and cage, and a leg of pickled pork.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

No sooner had the guest paid the usual stale compliments and bowed himself out, than Jenny, under pretense of asking an important question, informed Mr. Davis, the teacher, that Amy March had pickled limes in her desk.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

Little Teddy bore a charmed life, for nothing ever happened to him, and Jo never felt any anxiety when he was whisked up into a tree by one lad, galloped off on the back of another, or supplied with sour russets by his indulgent papa, who labored under the Germanic delusion that babies could digest anything, from pickled cabbage to buttons, nails, and their own small shoes.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

Well, they went to the bottom, and a nice mermaid welcomed them, but was much grieved on finding the box of headless knights, and kindly pickled them in brine, hoping to discover the mystery about them, for being a woman, she was curious.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)