leach
Meaning
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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.
- Alternative spelling of leech.
- A jelly-like sweetmeat popular in the fifteenth century.
Synonyms
flush down
rush down
leachine
gush down
sluice down
washine out
Frequency
Pronounced as (IPA)
/liːt͡ʃ/
Etymology
From Middle English leche (“leachate; sluggish stream”), from Old English *lǣċ, *lǣċe (“muddy stream”), from Proto-Germanic *lēkijō (“a leak, drain, flow”) (compare Proto-Germanic *lekaną (“to leak, drain”)), from Proto-Indo-European *leǵ- (“to leak”). Cognate with Old English leċċan (“to water, moisten”), Old English lacu (“stream, pool, pond”). More at leak, lake.
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