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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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Aleak :: Aleak (adv. & a.) In a leaking condition.

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..

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..

Fleak :: Fleak (n.) A flake; a thread or twist.

Leaky :: Leaky (superl.) Apt to disclose secrets; tattling; not close.

Leakiness :: Leakiness (n.) The quality of being leaky.

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

Leaked :: Leaked (imp. & p. p.) of Lea.

Bleak :: Bleak (a.) Cold and cutting; cheerless; as, a bleak blast..

Leak :: Leak (a.) Leaky.

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

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

Inhospitable :: Inhospitable (a.) Affording no shelter or sustenance; barren; desert; bleak; cheerless; wild.

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

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.) Without color; pale; pallid.

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..

Leakage :: Leakage (n.) An allowance of a certain rate per cent for the leaking of casks, or waste of liquors by leaking..

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..