pickle

• To be in a pickle is a far more commonly known expression.
• The driver had a face Monk would have called a pickle-puss It sounded as if all the dogs were howling steadily Johnny had picked up the St. Louis newspapers in Tuscumbia. —  056 - The Deadly Dwarf
• When skinned place in pickle or give foot coating of arsenic and alum--pickle is best. —  Home Taxidermy for Pleasure and Profit A Guide for Those Who Wish to Prepare and Mount Animals, Birds, Fish, Reptiles, etc., for Home, Den, or Office Decoration
• If the third stalk wants the top-pickle, that is, the grain at the top of the stalk, the party in question will come to the marriage-bed anything but a maid Footnote 34: When the corn is in a doubtful state, by being too green or wet, the stack-builder, by means of old timber, &c.;, makes a large apartment in his stack, with an opening in the side which is fairest exposed to the wind: this he calls a fause-house Footnote 35: Burning the nuts is a famous charm. —  The Complete Works of Robert Burns: Containing his Poems, Songs, and Correspondence. With a New Life of the Poet, and Notices, Critical and Biographical by Allan Cunningham
• The flowers are legitimately employed in decorating the salad-bowl, because they are not only ornamental but strictly edible In a green state the seeds of both tall and dwarf varieties make an excellent pickle which is occasionally used as a substitute for capers VERBENA Hardy and half-hardy perennials VERBENAS raised from the best strains of seed come true to colour and the plants are models of health and vigour, and make resplendent beds. —  The Culture of Vegetables and Flowers From Seeds and Roots 16th Edition

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