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Meaning of leach
noun
- 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"
noun
- 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
- A physician.
- (Heathenry) A healer.
noun
- The vertical edge of a square sail.
- The aft edge of a triangular sail.
verb
- 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.
Source: Free Dictionary API.
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