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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..

Bleak :: Bleak (a.) Without color; pale; pallid.

Alburn :: Alburn (n.) The bleak, a small European fish having scales of a peculiarly silvery color which are used in making artificial pearls..

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

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

Dribble :: Dribble (n.) A drizzling shower; a falling or leaking in drops.

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

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.

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

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

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..

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

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..

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..

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..

Leaky :: Leaky (superl.) Permitting water or other fluid to leak in or out; as, a leaky roof or cask..

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

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

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

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