pickle-harin

A sea-sprite, borrowed from the Teutonic.

← pickets × pickling →

Pickle
·noun ·see <<Picle>>. II. Pickle ·vt A troublesome child; as, a little pickle. III. Pickle ·vt Any...

Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
pickle
An arch waggish fellow. In pickle, or in the pickling tub; in a salivation. There are rods in brine,...

Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
pickle
To have a rod in pickle, or in soak, is to have a flogging prepared for one. The phrase is often use...

Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.
pickle
See brine ...

The Sailor's Word-Book
Pickle-herring
·noun A merry-andrew; a buffoon. II. Pickle-herring ·noun A herring preserved in brine; a pickled h...

Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
Pickle Yard
East out of Little Tower Hill, near the Victualling Office (Hatton, 1708 Not named in the maps. Si...

A Dictionary of London by Henry A Harben.