19 collocations for leak

It was then returned and loaded, reaching the opposite bank without mishap, or leaking a drop.

Unless the trunnion packings be well compressed, they will be likely to leak air, and it is, therefore, necessary to pay particular attention to this condition.

South Chicago is dominated by its steel mills,enormous drab structures, whose every crevice leaks quivering heat and whose towering chimneys belch forth unceasingly a pall of ashes and black smoke.

"There seems to be no doubt that the knowledge that my cousin was carrying the jewels leaked out hereand from Fullaway's office," he answered.

Shoeing horses, fitting saddles, etc.; the schooner leaks about seven inches per hour, and as the master is absent with the greater part of the crew, procuring timber, I have afforded assistance from the party at the camp, to assist in keeping the vessel dry. EXPLORE THE UPPER VICTORIA. 23rd November.

There were a good many holes in Bill's methods, but he never leaked information through them; and when I come across a fellow who doesn't mention it when he's asked not to, I come pretty near letting him fix his own salary.

It leaked outall things leak outthat Smith had said too much, and he became unpopular, which did not increase his contentment.

At night they looked like the old-fashioned perforated tin lanterns, leaking light in a thousand places.

Of course, they leaked a little, for the joints were not tight.

In the mornings hoar frost or light snows silvered the world, disappearing as soon as the sun touched them, when the bark of every tree leaked moisture.

A little has leaked outenough to whet the appetite of the true student and make him ask for more.

You're leaking power somewhere; as a matter of fact, I suspect you're not putting the power in.

At Bethnal Green we have been having a prolonged merry time of it, with damp walls behind us and leaking roofs above our heads.

Q.By what expedient is the piston rod enabled to pass through the cylinder cover without leaking steam out of the cylinder or air into it?

The relationship proved profitable, with Bandodkar leaking several stories to Gadkari that were published prominently in Gomantak.

But the false accusation leaked out as well as the theft.

It leaked outall things leak outthat Smith had said too much, and he became unpopular, which did not increase his contentment.

A wheezing hurdy-gurdy, with every other note gone to the limbo of lost chords, rasped and leaked jerky tunes.

In beating out of the river the cutter leaked a good deal, which showed that our late repair at Careening Bay had not placed us without the pale of danger: and I now began to fear that the leak had been occasioned more from the defect of her fastenings than from the accident that happened to her keel; so that we were in every respect as badly off as before the cutter was careened.

19 collocations for  leak