leach
A quantity of wood ashes, through which water passes, and thus imbibes the alkaliA quantity of wood ashes, through which water passes, and thus imbibes the alkali.
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3 sensesA quantity of wood ashes, through which water passes, and thus imbibes the alkali.
A tub or vat for leaching ashes, bark, etc.
A jelly-like sweetmeat popular in the fifteenth century.
- the process of leaching
Origin
From Middle English leche (“leachate; sluggish stream”), from Old English *lǣċ, *lǣċe (“muFrom Middle English leche (“leachate; sluggish stream”), from Old English *lǣċ, *lǣċe (“muddy stream”), from Proto-Germanic *lēkijō (“a leak, drain, flow”)
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