leaches

Noun

leach (plural leaches)

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.
   • "This is the leach," said Kitty, pointing to a large, yellowish, upright wooden cylinder, which rested on some slanting boards, down the surface of which ran a brownish liquid that dripped into a trough.1894, Robert Barr, chapter 7, in In the Midst of Alarms
3. A jelly-like sweetmeat popular in the fifteenth century.

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