Definition of leak

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Leak (v.) A crack, crevice, fissure, or hole which admits water or other fluid, or lets it escape; as, a leak in a roof; a leak in a boat; a leak in a gas pipe..

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Fleak :: Fleak (n.) A flake; a thread or twist.
Leakage :: Leakage (n.) An allowance of a certain rate per cent for the leaking of casks, or waste of liquors by leaking..
Escape :: Escape (n.) Leakage or loss of currents from the conducting wires, caused by defective insulation..
Leaky :: Leaky (superl.) Apt to disclose secrets; tattling; not close.
Inhospitable :: Inhospitable (a.) Affording no shelter or sustenance; barren; desert; bleak; cheerless; wild.
Escape :: Escape (n.) Leakage or outflow, as of steam or a liquid..
Raw :: Raw (superl.) Disagreeably damp or cold; chilly; bleak; as, a raw wind..
Leakage :: Leakage (n.) A leaking; also, the quantity that enters or issues by leaking..
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..
Out :: Out (a.) Beyond the limits of concealment, confinement, privacy, constraint, etc., actual of figurative; hence, not in concealment, constraint, etc., in, or into, a state of freedom, openness, disclosure, publicity, etc.; as, the sun shines out; he laughed out, to be out at the elbows; the secret has leaked out, or is out; the disease broke out on his face; the book is out..
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..
Leak :: Leak (a.) Leaky.
Tight :: Tight (superl.) Close, so as not to admit the passage of a liquid or other fluid; not leaky; as, a tight ship; a tight cask; a tight room; -- often used in this sense as the second member of a compound; as, water-tight; air-tight..
Wastage :: Wastage (n.) Loss by use, decay, evaporation, leakage, or the like; waste..
Pearlfish :: Pearlfish (n.) Any fish whose scales yield a pearl-like pigment used in manufacturing artificial pearls, as the bleak, and whitebait..
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..
Aleak :: Aleak (adv. & a.) In a leaking condition.
Alburn :: Alburn (n.) The bleak, a small European fish having scales of a peculiarly silvery color which are used in making artificial pearls..
Bleaky :: Bleaky (a.) Bleak.
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