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Lade :: Lade (v. t.) To admit water by leakage, as a ship, etc..

Pearlfish :: Pearlfish (n.) Any fish whose scales yield a pearl-like pigment used in manufacturing artificial pearls, as the bleak, and whitebait..

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..

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 (a.) Leaky.

Water-tight :: Water-tight (a.) So tight as to retain, or not to admit, water; not leaky..

Wastage :: Wastage (n.) Loss by use, decay, evaporation, leakage, or the like; waste..

Ooze :: Ooze (n.) Fig.: To leak (out) or escape slowly; as, the secret oozed out; his courage oozed out..

Leaking :: Leaking (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Lea.

Bleak :: Bleak (a.) A small European river fish (Leuciscus alburnus), of the family Cyprinidae; the blay..

Calk :: Calk (v. t.) To drive tarred oakum into the seams between the planks of (a ship, boat, etc.), to prevent leaking. The calking is completed by smearing the seams with melted pitch..

Bowge :: Bowge (v. t.) To cause to leak.

Fother :: Fother (v. t.) To stop (a leak in a ship at sea) by drawing under its bottom a thrummed sail, so that the pressure of the water may force it into the crack..

Blay :: Blay (a.) A fish. See Bleak, n..

Escape :: Escape (n.) Leakage or outflow, as of steam or a liquid..

Bleak :: Bleak (a.) Desolate and exposed; swept by cold winds.

Coffer :: Coffer (v. t.) To secure from leaking, as a shaft, by ramming clay behind the masonry or timbering..

Distress :: Distress (n.) A state of danger or necessity; as, a ship in distress, from leaking, loss of spars, want of provisions or water, etc..

Leakage :: Leakage (n.) A leaking; also, the quantity that enters or issues by leaking..

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