Noun: leach
| Singular | leach |
| Plural | leaches |
Sample Sentences
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"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:]
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[1670, Hannah Woolley, “To make Leach and to colour it”, in The Queen-like Closet, Or, Rich Cabinet:]
Nouns inflected like leach
penniless-bench,
wintergrass,
kitchen pass,
grey fox,
grey box,
trailer hitch,
paleness,
loaded march,
Tush Push,
horribleness,
slaughteress,
chapparvovirus,
greenwax,
royal flush,
crab cactus,
geostress,
syngas,
wintercress,
ichthys,
ichthus, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
1. From Middle English leche (“leachate; sluggish stream”), from Old English *lǣċ, *lǣċe (“muddy stream”), from Proto-Germanic *lēkijō (“a leak, drain, flow”)
2. (compare Proto-Germanic *lekaną (“to leak, drain”)), from Proto-Indo-European *leǵ- (“to leak”).
3. Cognate with Old English leċċan (“to water, moisten”), Old English lacu (“stream, pool, pond”). More at leak, lake. See: Middle English Nouns '
leche', Old English Nouns '
leċċan', Old English Nouns '
lacu'.