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Webster 1913 Edition

Adj.

Preserved in a pickle.

pickled

pickled ‎(comparative more pickled, superlative most pickled)

Preserved by pickling.
- 1959, Georgette Heyer, chapter 1, in The Unknown Ajax:
  But Richmond […] appeared to lose himself in his own reflections. Some pickled crab, which he had not touched, had been removed with a damson pie; and his sister saw […] that he had eaten no more than a spoonful of that either.
(slang) Drunk.

preserved by pickling