Leaking
[li:kiŋ]
Definition
(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Leak
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Unserious Contents or Definition
To dream of seeing a leak in anything, is usually significant of loss and vexations.
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Examples
- An old tin can or a sponge may serve to bale out water from a leaking rowboat, but such a crude device would be absurd if employed on our huge vessels of war and commerce. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- I can see it leaking out in fifty different ways,--just the same strong, overbearing, dominant spirit. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- It was the clank of the levers and the swish of the leaking cylinder. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
- By doing this, he would permit the greater external pressure to squeeze the soil into the leaking pockets and thereby choke the leak. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
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