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noun
Leach  n.  (Written also letch)  
1.
A quantity of wood ashes, through which water passes, and thus imbibes the alkali.
2.
A tub or vat for leaching ashes, bark, etc.
Leach tub, a wooden tub in which ashes are leached.


Letch  n.  
1.
Strong desire; passion; especially, lust. (Archaic) "Some people have a letch for unmasking impostors, or for avenging the wrongs of others."
2.
A lecher. (slang)


verb
Letch  v., n.  See Leach.





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"Letch" Quotes from Famous Books



... Dutchmen who supplied the ravenous maw of death, it would be impertinence in me to make any comment on it; but when the whole globe lends its aid to supply this destructive settlement, and its baneful effects arising more from the letch a Dutchman has for stagnant mud than from climate, I hope the indulgent reader will pardon my spleen, when I tell them professionally that all the mortality of that place originates from marsh effluvia, arising from their ...
— Voyage of H.M.S. Pandora - Despatched to Arrest the Mutineers of the 'Bounty' in the - South Seas, 1790-1791 • Edward Edwards


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