pickling
pickling Lexical Profile
pickling Game Scores & Validity
• noun
The culinary process of preserving or flavoring food by immersing it in a solution of brine, vinegar, or other acidic liquid.
"Home pickling is an excellent way to preserve excess garden cucumbers and peppers for the winter months."
A metal surface treatment used to remove impurities, such as stains, inorganic contaminants, rust, or scale, from ferrous metals, copper, and aluminum alloys using an acid bath.
"Acid pickling is a standard preparatory step before hot-dip galvanizing steel sheets."
• verb
To preserve food in vinegar, brine, or a similar acidic solution (present participle of pickle).
"She spent the entire afternoon pickling red onions and carrots in mason jars."
To treat the surface of metal with a chemical or acid bath in order to remove scale, oxides, or corrosion (present participle of pickle).
"The technicians are pickling the stainless steel pipes to ensure a clean, corrosion-resistant finish."