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jan 1, 1611 - leak

Description:

Probably the obsolete adjective ‘leak’; that is having a leak or leaks. 1611 ‘Johnson alleged that the Moyses was so <i>lecke </i> that he dare not sail in her’, Hull (YRS116/27). The evidence for leak and its derivatives is unusually late (OED).

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Date:

jan 1, 1611
Now
~ 414 years ago