Word Meaning

Meaning of "leach" and the crossword clue

- Filter through
- Percolate
- See 3d Leech.
- A quantity of wood ashes, through which water passes, and thus imbibes the alkali.
- A tub or vat for leaching ashes, bark, etc.
- To remove the soluble constituents from by subjecting to the action of percolating water or other liquid; as, to leach ashes or coffee.
- To dissolve out; -- often used with out; as, to leach out alkali from ashes.
- To part with soluble constituents by percolation.
- See Leech, a physician.