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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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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..

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

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

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

Leak :: Leak (a.) Leaky.

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..

Ablen :: Ablen () A small fresh-water fish (Leuciscus alburnus); the bleak.

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

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

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

Fleaking :: Fleaking (n.) A light covering of reeds, over which the main covering is laid, in thatching houses..

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

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..

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

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

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

Bilge :: Bilge (v. i.) To suffer a fracture in the bilge; to spring a leak by a fracture in the bilge.

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..

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

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.