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Uncommonleach
The correct spelling is leach.
How to pronounce leach
/liːtʃ/
nounIPA: /liːtʃ/
Say it like: Lee-ch
The correct spelling is leach. A quantity of wood ashes, through which water passes, and thus imbibes the alkali. For 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""
Usage Examples
“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"”
“Heavy rainfall can leach out minerals important for plant growth from the soil.”
Meanings
noun
- 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.
- 4.An aquatic blood-sucking annelid of class Hirudinea, especially Hirudo medicinalis.
- 5.A person who derives profit from others in a parasitic fashion.
verb
- 1.To purge a soluble matter out of something by the action of a percolating fluid.
- 2.To part with soluble constituents by percolation.
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