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Definition of Leakier
1. leaky [adj] - See also: leaky
Lexicographical Neighbors of Leakier
Literary usage of Leakier
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Unexplored New Guinea: A Record of the Travels, Adventures, and Experiences by Wilfred N. Beaver (1920)
"She became leakier and leakier and finally sank at her moorings a couple of years
ago dismasted and unrigged. I for one always felt an affection for the old ..."
2. Godey's Magazine by Louis Antoine Godey, Sarah Josepha Buell Hale (1895)
"Howard. Not until I reached the doorstep did I realize that No. 3 was the home
of Violet Eyes. Was ever a poor fellow in a leakier boat ? Sibyl. [Aside. ..."
3. Old English Glosses: Chiefly Unpublished by Arthur Sampson Napier (1900)
"1867. discrimina here means ' dangers,' but the gloss, has evid. rendered the
dis- by or-, and the crimen by leakier. Cp. WIV. 223"; 251'. ..."
4. Letters and Memorials by Richard Chenevix Trench (1888)
"This was needful, as it was cracking and drying up, and Charon's boat, which I
think is described as a rimosa cymba, could scarcely have been leakier than ..."
5. Robert J. Burdette: His Message by Robert Jones Burdette, Clara Bradley Burdette (1922)
"The emptier the mind, the leakier, the less a man knows, the harder he is to
entertain. The well filled mind is company for itself. ..."
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