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Leach   /litʃ/   Listen
verb
Leach  v. t.  (past & past part. leached; pres. part. leaching)  
1.
To remove the soluble constituents from by subjecting to the action of percolating water or other liquid; as, to leach ashes or coffee.
2.
To dissolve out; often used with out; as, to leach out alkali from ashes.


Leach  v. i.  To part with soluble constituents by percolation.


noun
Leach  n.  (Naut.) See 3d Leech.


Leach  n.  (Written also letch)  
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.
Leach tub, a wooden tub in which ashes are leached.


Leach  n.  See Leech, a physician. (Obs.)





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"Leach" Quotes from Famous Books



... with a low grating sound, we ran aground upon a gravelly leach. My bundle was thrown ashore, I stepped after it, and a seaman pushed the prow off again, springing in as his comrade backed her into deep water. Already the glow in the west had vanished, the storm-cloud was half up the heavens, and a thick blackness had gathered over the ocean. As ...
— Uncle Bernac - A Memory of the Empire • Arthur Conan Doyle
... saucerlike depression. Fragments of the husks were carefully eliminated. The coarse meal was put into a dilly-bag and placed in running water below a slight fall, from the lip of which fluming, improvised from the leaf of native ginger, conducted a gentle stream. Two days were sufficient to leach the poisonous principle; but if the initial process of roasting the nuts was omitted—as in some districts—the meal was submitted to the purification of water for as long as two months, when it would be tasteless. It was then ground on ...
— Tropic Days • E. J. Banfield
... him home myself," he said to the old colonel, emerging from his hiding place behind the leach, and bidding Claib follow with another horse Hugh went a second time to Colonel ...
— Bad Hugh • Mary Jane Holmes
... of this furnace has already been sufficiently described. If the roasting is performed in a muffle chamber, the arrangement employed by Messrs. Leach and Neal, Limited, of Derby, and designed by Mr. B. H. Thwaite, C.E., can be advantageously employed in this furnace, which is fired with gaseous fuel. The sensible heat of the waste gases is utilised to heat the air employed ...
— Getting Gold • J. C. F. Johnson
... (by accident) I met with Mr. James Leach, the well-known Chartist, with whom I had some conversation unnecessary here to ...
— The Felon's Track • Michael Doheny


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