letch
Pronunciation:
/lɛt͡ʃ/noun
Definitions
Strong desire; passion.
A lecher.
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letch
Pronunciation:
/lɛt͡ʃ/noun
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A stream or pool in boggy land.
letch
Pronunciation:
/lɛt͡ʃ/noun
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A quantity of wood ashes, through which water passes, and thus imbibes the alkali.
A tub or vat for leaching ashes, bark, etc.
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"
verb
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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.
To part with soluble constituents by percolation.
noun
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An aquatic blood-sucking annelid of class Hirudinea, especially Hirudo medicinalis.
A person who derives profit from others in a parasitic fashion.
A glass tube designed for drawing blood from damaged tissue by means of a vacuum.
noun
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A physician.
(Heathenry) A healer.
noun
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The vertical edge of a square sail.
The aft edge of a triangular sail.