To preserve food in a salt solution.
To prepare and flavor food (especially meat) for cooking by soaking in a salt solution.
The sea or ocean; the water of the sea.
Salt water; water saturated or strongly impregnated with salt; a salt-and-water solution for pickling.
To damage the skin of (fruit or vegetables), in an analogous way.
To strike (a person), originally with something flat or heavy, but now specifically in such a way as to discolour the skin without breaking it.
To become bruised.
To fight with the fists; to box.
To impair (gin) by shaking rather than stirring.
To harm or injure.
Of fruit or vegetables, to gain bruises through being handled roughly.
A dark mark on fruit or vegetables caused by a blow to the surface.
A purplish mark on the skin due to leakage of blood from capillaries under the surface that have been damaged by a blow.