LEACH

5 letters 10 Scrabble points /liːtʃ/

Definition of LEACH

noun
  1. A quantity of wood ashes, through which water passes, and thus imbibes the alkali.

  2. A tub or vat for leaching ashes, bark, etc.

  3. A jelly-like sweetmeat popular in the fifteenth century.

    "1670 Hannah Woolley The Queen-like Closet, Or, Rich Cabinet https//en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Queen-Like_Closet "To make Leach and to colour it""

noun
  1. An aquatic blood-sucking annelid of class Hirudinea, especially Hirudo medicinalis.

  2. A person who derives profit from others in a parasitic fashion.

  3. A glass tube designed for drawing blood from damaged tissue by means of a vacuum.

noun
  1. A physician.

  2. (Heathenry) A healer.

Related words: healer barber doctor physician
noun
  1. The vertical edge of a square sail.

  2. The aft edge of a triangular sail.

Source: Wiktionary

Word Details

Letters L E A C H
Length 5 letters
Scrabble Score 10 points

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