See 3d Leech.
A quantity of wood ashes, through which water passes, and thus imbibes the alkali.
A tub or vat for leaching ashes, bark, etc. Leach tub, a wooden tub in which ashes are leached.
To remove the soluble constituents from by subjecting to the action of percolating water or other liquid; as, to leach ashes or coffee.
To dissolve out; -- often used with out; as, to leach out alkali from ashes.
To part with soluble constituents by percolation.
See Leech, a physician. [Obs.]
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