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Meaning of leach

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leach

Pronunciation:/liːtʃ//liːtʃ/

noun

Definitions

  1. A quantity of wood ashes, through which water passes, and thus imbibes the alkali.

  2. A tub or vat for leaching ashes, bark, etc.

  3. A jelly-like sweetmeat popular in the fifteenth century.

    Example: 1670 Hannah Woolley The Queen-like Closet, Or, Rich Cabinet https//en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Queen-Like_Closet "To make Leach and to colour it"

noun

Definitions

  1. An aquatic blood-sucking annelid of class Hirudinea, especially Hirudo medicinalis.

  2. A person who derives profit from others in a parasitic fashion.

  3. A glass tube designed for drawing blood from damaged tissue by means of a vacuum.

noun

Definitions

  1. A physician.

  2. (Heathenry) A healer.

noun

Definitions

  1. The vertical edge of a square sail.

  2. The aft edge of a triangular sail.

Sources:https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/leachhttps://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/leech

leach

Pronunciation:/liːtʃ//liːtʃ/

verb

Definitions

  1. To purge a soluble matter out of something by the action of a percolating fluid.

    Example: Heavy rainfall can leach out minerals important for plant growth from the soil.

  2. To part with soluble constituents by percolation.

Sources:https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/leach

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