simple past tense and past participle of pickle

Preserved by pickling. / (slang) Drunk.

present participle of pick

A gathering to pick fruit. / (usually pluralized) Items remaining after others have selected the best; scraps, as of food.

A pilot trained in using and assigned to pilot a fighter plane.

A drug, such as mifepristone (Mifegyne), used to terminate a pregnancy in its earliest stage.

(transitive) To form a pile, stack, or heap. / (idiomatic, intransitive) To collect or accumulate, as a backlog.

A pile of crashed vehicles due to a traffic accident. / (American football) A pile of tackling players. / An accumulation that occurs over time, especially one which is not welcome.

(music, countable or uncountable) The exact pitch of a note as established by its rate of vibration based on a standard scale.

To pick up the receiver of a telephone, generally with the intention of making a phone call. / To answer an incoming telephone call.