Bible Dictionaries
Leak

Webster's Dictionary

(1):

(v.) The entrance or escape of a fluid through a crack, fissure, or other aperture; as, the leak gained on the ship's pumps.

(2):

(a.) Leaky.

(3):

(n.) A loss of electricity through imperfect insulation; also, the point at which such loss occurs.

(4):

(v.) 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.

(5):

(n.) To let water or other fluid in or out through a hole, crevice, etc.; as, the cask leaks; the roof leaks; the boat leaks.

(6):

(n.) To enter or escape, as a fluid, through a hole, crevice, etc.; to pass gradually into, or out of, something; - usually with in or out.

Bibliography Information
Webster, Noah. Entry for 'Leak'. Noah Webster's American Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/​dictionaries/​eng/​web/​l/leak.html. 1828.