Leach

Quick meaning: Leach is a noun meaning A quantity of wood ashes, through which water passes, and thus imbibes the alkali.

Meaning

A quantity of wood ashes, through which water passes, and thus imbibes the alkali.

More Meanings

1. A tub or vat for leaching ashes, bark, etc.
2. (nautical) Alternative spelling of leech.
3. A jelly-like sweetmeat popular in the fifteenth century.
4. (transitive) To purge a soluble matter out of something by the action of a percolating fluid.
5. (intransitive) To part with soluble constituents by percolation.
6. (figurative, intransitive) To bleed; to seep.

Example Sentences

Heavy rainfall can leach out minerals important for plant growth from the soil.

The gangue was leached to recover minerals left behind by the original technology.

A more generic geography, one where the suburb uneasily abuts the commercial and industrial, or leaches out to a nonurban frontier.

"This is the leach," said Kitty, pointing to a large, yellowish, upright wooden cylinder, which rested on some slanting boards, down the surface of which ran a brownish liquid that dripped into a trough.

Word Forms

• leaches
• leaching
• leached

Synonyms for leach

Depending on context, synonyms include percolate, strip, leaching.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include percolate, strip, filter, leachate, disband, dissolve.

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