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Definition of Leakily
1. leaky [adv] - See also: leaky
Lexicographical Neighbors of Leakily
Literary usage of Leakily
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London by Royal Society (Great Britain) (1892)
"... keeping them asunder by glass or paraffin pillars; the jars standing on a
wooden table, or being otherwise leakily connected so that they might charge. ..."
2. Unvisited Places of Old Europe by Robert Shackleton (1913)
"These folk have never been taught to cater to the demand of the tourist for the
crumbling, the ruinous, and the leakily picturesque. ..."
3. Lightning Conductors and Lightning Guards: A Treatise on the Protection of by Oliver Lodge (1892)
"... or being otherwise leakily connected so that they might charge. Every machine
spark at A (Fig. 51) caused long brushes, or sometimes remarkably long ..."
4. The Human Speech Sounds by Charles T. Luthy (1918)
"... slightly bent down, is just back of and clears the center of the inside of
the upper gum, and the blade of the tongue is under and leakily clears the ..."
5. Nathan Bailey's Dictionary, English-German and German-English: Englisch by Nathan Bailey (1810)
"»fif, adj. leaky: — adv. leakily; terf fei;n to be leaky, to make water; lerf
treiben to become leaky. ..."
6. Travels in Morocco by James Richardson (1860)
"A mere long shell of bad planks, and scarcely more ship-shape than the trunk of
a .tree hollowed into a canoe, leakily put together. ..."
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