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Meaning:

Noun:

  • An aquatic blood-sucking annelid of class ''Hirudinea'', especially ''Hirudo medicinalis''.
  • A person who derives profit from others, in a parasitic fashion.
  • archaic A physician.
  • Nautical The vertical edge of a square sail
  • nautical The aft edge of a triangular sail
  • paganism A healer in Heathenry.

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Verb:

  • transitive To apply a '''leech''' medicinally.
  • transitive To drain (resources) without giving back.

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