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Leach [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. See 3d Leech.

2. A quantity of wood ashes, through which water passes, and thus imbibes the alkali.

3. A tub or vat for leaching ashes, bark, etc.

4. See Leech, a physician.

Leach [Verb intransitive] Webster's Dictionary 1913

To part with soluble constituents by percolation.

Leach [Verb transitive] Webster's Dictionary 1913

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-tub [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

A wooden vessel or tub in which ashes are leached. It is sometimes written letch-tub.

Leached [Imperfect tense and past participle] Webster's Dictionary 1913

Leaching [Present participle and verbal noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

Leachy [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1913

Permitting liquids to pass by percolation; not capable of retaining water; porous; pervious; -- said of gravelly or sandy soils, and the like.