leaches

Meaning of leaches

noun
  1. A quantity of wood ashes, through which water passes, and thus imbibes the alkali.
  2. A tub or vat for leaching ashes, bark, etc.
  3. A jelly-like sweetmeat popular in the fifteenth century.
    1670 Hannah Woolley The Queen-like Closet, Or, Rich Cabinet https//en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Queen-Like_Closet "To make Leach and to colour it"
verb
  1. To purge a soluble matter out of something by the action of a percolating fluid.
    Heavy rainfall can leach out minerals important for plant growth from the soil.
  2. To part with soluble constituents by percolation.
noun
  1. An aquatic blood-sucking annelid of class Hirudinea, especially Hirudo medicinalis.
  2. A person who derives profit from others in a parasitic fashion.
  3. A glass tube designed for drawing blood from damaged tissue by means of a vacuum.
noun
  1. A physician.
  2. (Heathenry) A healer.
noun
  1. The vertical edge of a square sail.
  2. The aft edge of a triangular sail.

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Hyphenation of leaches

leaches

  • It consists of 1 syllables and 7 chars.
  • leaches is a word monosyllabic because it has one syllable

leaches synonyms

Meaning :

bloodsucker, parasite, sponger, vampire, healer, barber, doctor, physician

Anagrams of leaches

Chelsae, Chelsea, clashee

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