leach

/liːtʃ/ · noun

Meaning

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.
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.
A physician.
(Heathenry) A healer.
The vertical edge of a square sail.
The aft edge of a triangular sail.
To purge a soluble matter out of something by the action of a percolating fluid.
To part with soluble constituents by percolation.

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