/liːtʃ/
noun
A quantity of wood ashes, through which water passes, and thus imbibes the alkali.A tub or vat for leaching ashes, bark, etc.A jelly-like sweetmeat popular in the fifteenth century.noun
An aquatic blood-sucking annelid of class Hirudinea, especially Hirudo medicinalis.A person who derives profit from others in a parasitic fashion.A glass tube designed for drawing blood from damaged tissue by means of a vacuum.noun
A physician.(Heathenry) A healer.noun
The vertical edge of a square sail.The aft edge of a triangular sail.