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▪ I. pickler1 ? Obs.|ˈpɪklə(r)|
[f. pickle v.2 + -er1.]
a. One who picks a little at a time, or who eats sparingly.
b. See quot. 1718.
1581Mulcaster Positions vi. (1887) 46 The diet..must be small, as nature is a pickler, and requires but small pittaunce. 1718Entertainer No. 14. 90 A pernicious Sect of Animals called Picklers; who take upon themselves..to ridicule every Thing that does not square with their own Humours.
▪ II. ˈpickler2
[f. pickle v.1 + -er1.]
1. A vegetable (cucumber, onion, etc.) grown for pickling.
1763Mills Pract. Husb. IV. 166 The latter crop of cucumbers, commonly called picklers. 1846J. Baxter Libr. Pract. Agric. (ed. 4) II. 174 In Essex..onions are grown largely in field culture... Picklers are grown upon poor, light ground, to keep them small.
2. A person or thing that pickles (lit. and fig.).
1865Sir P. Wallis in Brighton Life (1892) 265 The Droitwich saline baths..powerful picklers indeed they are. 1883Daily News 29 May 8/3 To Picklers, Laundrymen, and Others.—Convenient Premises to Let.
3. A vessel in which vegetables can be pickled.
1862Illustr. Catal. Internat. Exhib., Industr. Dept., Brit. Div. II. No. 6870, Bottles, filters, jars, foot-warmers, jugs, picklers, casks, jelly-cans. |