Teached vs Leached - What's the difference?
teached | leached |
(nonstandard, colloquial, dialectal) (teach)
* {{quote-book, year=1850, author=Unknown Author, title=Jemmy Stubbins, or The Nailer Boy, chapter=, edition=
, passage=I always like to be there to teach or to be teached . }}
* {{quote-book, year=1911, author=Ruth McEnery Stuart, title=Sonny, A Christmas Guest, chapter=, edition=
, passage=His Sam failed to pass at the preliminar' examination, an' wasn't allowed to try for a diplomy in public; an' Enoch an' his wife, why, they seem to hold it ag'in' me thet Sonny could step in at the last moment an' take what their boy could n't git th'oo the trials an' tribulations of a whole year o' bein' teached lessons at home an' wrestled in prayer over. }}
* {{quote-book, year=1936-1938, author=Works Projects Administration, title=Slave Narratives Vol. XIV. South Carolina, Part 2, chapter=, edition=
, passage=Ole Missus and Marse learn't me to never tell a lie, and she teached me dat's de way to git along well. }}
(leach)
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A quantity of wood ashes, through which water passes, and thus imbibes the alkali.
A tub or vat for leaching ashes, bark, etc.
* 1894 , , In the Midst of Alarms , ch. 7:
(nautical)
To purge a soluble matter out of something by the action of a percolating fluid.
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To part with soluble constituents by percolation.
As verbs the difference between teached and leached
is that teached is past tense of teach while leached is past tense of leach.teached
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Usage notes
The correct past of teach is taught.Anagrams
*leached
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*leach
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(leaches)- "This is the leach ," said Kitty, pointing to a large, yellowish, upright wooden cylinder, which rested on some slanting boards, down the surface of which ran a brownish liquid that dripped into a trough.
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- Heavy rainfall can leach out minerals important for plant growth from the soil.
