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Leak

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

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Leakage

A leaking also the quantity that enters or issues by leaking

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oozing

leaking out slowly

leakproof

having no leaks

make water

To leak

Calk

To drive tarred oakum into the seams between the planks of a ship boat etc to prevent leaking The calking is completed by smearing the seams with melted pitch

Leakage

Leakage, an allowance made to merchants for the leaking of casks or the waste of liquors.

Plea

the dilatory showed some ground for quashing the declaration, the peremptory for defeating the action. Consult Bullen and Leake, or Odgers on Pleading, and Ch. Arch. Practice. In equity, a plea was resorted to by a defendant

Issue

to the meaning of issue in regard to costs, and see PLEADING. Consult Odgers on Pleading; Bullen and Leake's Precedents of Plead-ings. In Scottish practice, the question put to a jury in a civil case is termed

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