leaches
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A quantity of wood ashes, through which water passes, and thus imbibes the alkali.
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A tub or vat for leaching ashes, bark, etc.
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A jelly-like sweetmeat popular in the fifteenth century.
“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"”
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To purge a soluble matter out of something by the action of a percolating fluid.
“Heavy rainfall can leach out minerals important for plant growth from the soil.”
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To part with soluble constituents by percolation.
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An aquatic blood-sucking annelid of class Hirudinea, especially Hirudo medicinalis.
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A person who derives profit from others in a parasitic fashion.
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A glass tube designed for drawing blood from damaged tissue by means of a vacuum.
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The vertical edge of a square sail.
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The aft edge of a triangular sail.
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Source: https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/leach, https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/leaches, https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/leech