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superl.
Close, so as not to admit the passage of a liquid or other fluid; not leaky; as, a tight ship; a tight cask; a tight room; -- often used in this sense as the second member of a compound; as, water-tight; air-tight.
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.
v. t.
That which is lost or from which one has parted; waste; -- opposed to gain or increase; as, the loss of liquor by leakage was considerable.
n.
The material obtained by untwisting and picking into loose fiber old hemp ropes; -- used for calking the seams of ships, stopping leaks, etc.
superl.
Permitting water or other fluid to leak in or out; as, a leaky roof or cask.
n.
To let water or other fluid in or out through a hole, crevice, etc.; as, the cask leaks; the roof leaks; the boat leaks.
n.
An allowance of a certain rate per cent for the leaking of casks, or waste of liquors by leaking.
v. t.
To admit water by leakage, as a ship, etc.
a.
So tight as to retain, or not to admit, water; not leaky.
a.
Leaky.
n.
To enter or escape, as a fluid, through a hole, crevice, etc. ; to pass gradually into, or out of, something; -- usually with in or out.
n.
Fig.: To leak (out) or escape slowly; as, the secret oozed out; his courage oozed out.
superl.
Apt to disclose secrets; tattling; not close.
imp. & p. p.
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n.
A leaking; also, the quantity that enters or issues by leaking.
n.
Loss by use, decay, evaporation, leakage, or the like; waste.
v.
A crack, crevice, fissure, or hole which admits water or other fluid, or lets it escape; as, a leak in a roof; a leak in a boat; a leak in a gas pipe.
p. pr. & vb. n.
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v.
The entrance or escape of a fluid through a crack, fissure, or other aperture; as, the leak gained on the ship's pumps.
n.
The quality of being leaky.
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