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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Leakage :: Leakage (n.) An allowance of a certain rate per cent for the leaking of casks, or waste of liquors by leaking..
Bleak :: Bleak (a.) Desolate and exposed; swept by cold winds.
Bleak :: Bleak (a.) Cold and cutting; cheerless; as, a bleak blast..
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..
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..
Bleak :: Bleak (a.) A small European river fish (Leuciscus alburnus), of the family Cyprinidae; the blay..
Leakage :: Leakage (n.) A leaking; also, the quantity that enters or issues by leaking..
Paramo :: Paramo (n.) A high, bleak plateau or district, with stunted trees, and cold, damp atmosphere, as in the Andes, in South America..
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..
Leak :: Leak (n.) To enter or escape, as a fluid, through a hole, crevice, etc. ; to pass gradually into, or out of, something; -- usually with in or out..
Lade :: Lade (v. t.) To admit water by leakage, as a ship, etc..
Water-tight :: Water-tight (a.) So tight as to retain, or not to admit, water; not leaky..
Fleaking :: Fleaking (n.) A light covering of reeds, over which the main covering is laid, in thatching houses..
Fleak :: Fleak (n.) A flake; a thread or twist.
Bowge :: Bowge (v. t.) To cause to leak.
Bleaky :: Bleaky (a.) Bleak.
Dribble :: Dribble (n.) A drizzling shower; a falling or leaking in drops.
Leak :: Leak (a.) Leaky.
Leaking :: Leaking (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Lea.
Wastage :: Wastage (n.) Loss by use, decay, evaporation, leakage, or the like; waste..
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