leach

/liːt͡ʃ/

leach · name — A surname from Old English.

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leach is pronounced /liːt͡ʃ/.

Etymology

Two main origins: * Occupational surname for a physician, from Old English lǣċe (“doctor, physician”). * Topographic surname for someone who lived by a boggy stream, from Old English læcc (“boggy stream”) (related to Proto-Germanic *lekaną), or from several English placenames related to this (compare Leake).

name

A surname from Old English.
A census-designated place in Delaware County, Oklahoma, United States.
An unincorporated community in Carroll County, Tennessee, United States.
A river in Gloucestershire, with a short stretch in Oxfordshire, England, which joins the Thames at Lechlade; in full, the River Leach.

noun

A 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.

verb

To purge a soluble matter out of something by the action of a percolating fluid.e.g.“Heavy rainfall can leach out minerals important for plant growth from the soil.”
To part with soluble constituents by percolation.e.g.“The gangue was leached to recover minerals left behind by the original technology.”
To bleed; to seep.e.g.“A more generic geography, one where the suburb uneasily abuts the commercial and industrial, or leaches out to a nonurban frontier.” — 2007, Andrew Shanken, “The Sublime "Jackass"”, in Places, volume 19:

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