Word Direct Answers

What does "leach" mean?

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

Additional senses

  1. 2.A tub or vat for leaching ashes, bark, etc. Leach tub, a wooden tub in which ashes are leached.
  2. 3.To remove the soluble constituents from by subjecting to the action of percolating water or other liquid; as, to leach ashes or coffee.
  3. 4.To dissolve out; -- often used with out; as, to leach out alkali from ashes.
  4. 5.To part with soluble constituents by percolation.
  5. 6.See Leech, a physician. [Obs.]

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