Definition of leak

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Leak (v.) A crack, crevice, fissure, or hole which admits water or other fluid, or lets it escape; as, a leak in a roof; a leak in a boat; a leak in a gas pipe..

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Ooze :: Ooze (n.) Fig.: To leak (out) or escape slowly; as, the secret oozed out; his courage oozed out..
Allow :: Allow (v. t.) To grant (something) as a deduction or an addition; esp. to abate or deduct; as, to allow a sum for leakage..
Wastage :: Wastage (n.) Loss by use, decay, evaporation, leakage, or the like; waste..
Inhospitable :: Inhospitable (a.) Affording no shelter or sustenance; barren; desert; bleak; cheerless; wild.
Blay :: Blay (a.) A fish. See Bleak, n..
Fleaking :: Fleaking (n.) A light covering of reeds, over which the main covering is laid, in thatching houses..
Bleak :: Bleak (a.) Without color; pale; pallid.
Water-tight :: Water-tight (a.) So tight as to retain, or not to admit, water; not leaky..
Escape :: Escape (n.) Leakage or loss of currents from the conducting wires, caused by defective insulation..
Gasoscope :: Gasoscope (n.) An apparatus for detecting the presence of any dangerous gas, from a gas leak in a coal mine or a dwelling house..
Lade :: Lade (v. t.) To admit water by leakage, as a ship, etc..
Leaked :: Leaked (imp. & p. p.) of Lea.
Tight :: Tight (superl.) Close, so as not to admit the passage of a liquid or other fluid; not leaky; as, a tight ship; a tight cask; a tight room; -- often used in this sense as the second member of a compound; as, water-tight; air-tight..
Leaking :: Leaking (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Lea.
Oakum :: Oakum (n.) The material obtained by untwisting and picking into loose fiber old hemp ropes; -- used for calking the seams of ships, stopping leaks, etc..
Leaky :: Leaky (superl.) Permitting water or other fluid to leak in or out; as, a leaky roof or cask..
Leak :: Leak (a.) Leaky.
Coffer :: Coffer (v. t.) To secure from leaking, as a shaft, by ramming clay behind the masonry or timbering..
Ablen :: Ablen () A small fresh-water fish (Leuciscus alburnus); the bleak.
Fleak :: Fleak (n.) A flake; a thread or twist.
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