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Distress :: Distress (n.) A state of danger or necessity; as, a ship in distress, from leaking, loss of spars, want of provisions or water, etc..

Leakage :: Leakage (n.) A leaking; also, the quantity that enters or issues by leaking..

Aleak :: Aleak (adv. & a.) In a leaking condition.

Bleak :: Bleak (a.) Cold and cutting; cheerless; as, a bleak blast..

Lade :: Lade (v. t.) To admit water by leakage, as a ship, etc..

Bleak :: Bleak (a.) Without color; pale; pallid.

Calk :: Calk (v. t.) To drive tarred oakum into the seams between the planks of (a ship, boat, etc.), to prevent leaking. The calking is completed by smearing the seams with melted pitch..

Oakum :: Oakum (n.) The material obtained by untwisting and picking into loose fiber old hemp ropes; -- used for calking the seams of ships, stopping leaks, etc..

Iron-sick :: Iron-sick (a.) Having the ironwork loose or corroded; -- said of a ship when her bolts and nails are so eaten with rust that she has become leaky.

Ooze :: Ooze (n.) Fig.: To leak (out) or escape slowly; as, the secret oozed out; his courage oozed out..

Allow :: Allow (v. t.) To grant (something) as a deduction or an addition; esp. to abate or deduct; as, to allow a sum for leakage..

Fother :: Fother (v. t.) To stop (a leak in a ship at sea) by drawing under its bottom a thrummed sail, so that the pressure of the water may force it into the crack..

Pearlfish :: Pearlfish (n.) Any fish whose scales yield a pearl-like pigment used in manufacturing artificial pearls, as the bleak, and whitebait..

Wastage :: Wastage (n.) Loss by use, decay, evaporation, leakage, or the like; waste..

Escape :: Escape (n.) Leakage or outflow, as of steam or a liquid..

Leaking :: Leaking (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Lea.

Paramo :: Paramo (n.) A high, bleak plateau or district, with stunted trees, and cold, damp atmosphere, as in the Andes, in South America..

Bleak :: Bleak (a.) A small European river fish (Leuciscus alburnus), of the family Cyprinidae; the blay..

Water-tight :: Water-tight (a.) So tight as to retain, or not to admit, water; not leaky..

Leak :: Leak (n.) To enter or escape, as a fluid, through a hole, crevice, etc. ; to pass gradually into, or out of, something; -- usually with in or out..

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