Definition of leak

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Leak (v.) The entrance or escape of a fluid through a crack, fissure, or other aperture; as, the leak gained on the ship's pumps..

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Bowge :: Bowge (v. t.) To cause to leak.
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..
Dribble :: Dribble (n.) A drizzling shower; a falling or leaking in drops.
Leak :: 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..
Loss :: Loss (v. t.) That which is lost or from which one has parted; waste; -- opposed to gain or increase; as, the loss of liquor by leakage was considerable..
Bleak :: Bleak (a.) A small European river fish (Leuciscus alburnus), of the family Cyprinidae; the blay..
Fleak :: Fleak (n.) A flake; a thread or twist.
Alburn :: Alburn (n.) The bleak, a small European fish having scales of a peculiarly silvery color which are used in making artificial pearls..
Leak :: Leak (n.) To let water or other fluid in or out through a hole, crevice, etc.; as, the cask leaks; the roof leaks; the boat leaks..
Bleak :: Bleak (a.) Without color; pale; pallid.
Inhospitable :: Inhospitable (a.) Affording no shelter or sustenance; barren; desert; bleak; cheerless; wild.
Lade :: Lade (v. t.) To admit water by leakage, as a ship, etc..
Escape :: Escape (n.) Leakage or loss of currents from the conducting wires, caused by defective insulation..
Bleak :: Bleak (a.) Desolate and exposed; swept by cold winds.
Wastage :: Wastage (n.) Loss by use, decay, evaporation, leakage, or the like; waste..
Leakage :: Leakage (n.) An allowance of a certain rate per cent for the leaking of casks, or waste of liquors by leaking..
Pearlfish :: Pearlfish (n.) Any fish whose scales yield a pearl-like pigment used in manufacturing artificial pearls, as the bleak, and whitebait..
Iron-sick :: Iron-sick (a.) Having the ironwork loose or corroded; -- said of a ship when her bolts and nails are so eaten with rust that she has become leaky.
Raw :: Raw (superl.) Disagreeably damp or cold; chilly; bleak; as, a raw wind..
Leaking :: Leaking (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Lea.
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