Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- In or into a leaking state.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adverb In a leaking condition.
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- adjective
leaking - adverb
leaking
Etymologies
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Examples
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The vessel sprung aleak, which it was found impossible to stop.
The Bay State Monthly — Volume 2, No. 5, February, 1885 Various
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Many times her timbers sprang aleak on the voyage -- for she was but a jerry-built craft at best -- but she finally got into the harbor of Waterford,
The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 11 John [Editor] Rudd 1885
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With shivered masts, and torn sails, and hulk aleak, we put in at the harbor of home.
The Wedding Ring A Series of Discourses for Husbands and Wives and Those Contemplating Matrimony 1867
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'Fore your soft-soddered peace would spring aleak.
The Complete Poetical Works of James Russell Lowell James Russell Lowell 1855
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Such aleak in central London next to major transport hubs would be catastrophic.
unknown title 2009
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Nevertheless, a National Grid crew was back out at the intersection yesterday, digging up part of the road to try to determine whether there was aleak in the gas main.
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a handle on its top and the curved end of a lead pipe always aleak thrust through its rotten side, with its little statues of ice all winter and its spattering slop all summer.
Colonel Carter of Cartersville Francis Hopkinson Smith 1876
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