pickling

/ˈpɪk.lɪŋ/ · verb

Meaning

To preserve food (or sometimes other things) in a salt, sugar or vinegar solution.
To remove high-temperature scale and oxidation from metal with heated (often sulphuric) industrial acid.
(in the Python programming language) To serialize.
To pour brine over a person after flogging them, as a method of punishment.
To eat sparingly.
To pilfer.
An instance of processing something in brine or other solution.
A process by which the oxide scale on steel (especially stainless steels) is chemically removed (by strong acids).

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