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

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.

Raw :: Raw (superl.) Disagreeably damp or cold; chilly; bleak; as, a raw wind..

Bilge :: Bilge (v. i.) To suffer a fracture in the bilge; to spring a leak by a fracture in the bilge.

Leaked :: Leaked (imp. & p. p.) of Lea.

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

Blay :: Blay (a.) A fish. See Bleak, n..

Fleaking :: Fleaking (n.) A light covering of reeds, over which the main covering is laid, in thatching houses..

Leaky :: Leaky (superl.) Permitting water or other fluid to leak in or out; as, a leaky roof or cask..

Fleak :: Fleak (n.) A flake; a thread or twist.

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

Leakiness :: Leakiness (n.) The quality of being leaky.

Leaky :: Leaky (superl.) Apt to disclose secrets; tattling; not close.

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..

Coffer :: Coffer (v. t.) To secure from leaking, as a shaft, by ramming clay behind the masonry or timbering..

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..

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

Leak :: Leak (a.) Leaky.

Bowge :: Bowge (v. t.) To cause to leak.

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