| 1. | to dissolve out soluble constituents from (ashes, soil, etc.) by percolation. |
| 2. | to cause (water or other liquid) to percolate through something. |
| 3. | (of ashes, soil, etc.) to undergo the action of percolating water. |
| 4. | to percolate, as water. |
| 5. | the act or process of leaching. |
| 6. | a product or solution obtained by leaching; leachate. |
| 7. | the material leached. |
| 8. | a vessel for use in leaching. |

| 1. | either of the lateral edges of a square sail. |
| 2. | the after edge of a fore-and-aft sail. |

leech 1 (lēch)
n.
Any of various chiefly aquatic bloodsucking or carnivorous annelid worms of the class Hirudinea, one species of which (Hirudo medicinalis) was formerly used by physicians to bleed patients. v. leeched, leech·ing, leech·es
To bleed with leeches.