2. Verb. (third-person singular of soak) ¹
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Definition of Soaks
1. soak [v] - See also: soak
Lexicographical Neighbors of Soaks
Literary usage of Soaks
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Text-book on Trade Waste Waters: Their Nature and Disposal by H. Maclean Wilson, Harry Thornton Calvert (1913)
"The skins, pelts, kips, or hides, as they are variously named, are first steeped
and washed in pits of water—the "soaks." In the case of fresh hides this is ..."
2. The Annual of Scientific Discovery, Or, Year-book of Facts in Science and Art. by David Ames Wells, George Bliss, Samuel Kneeland, John Trowbridge, Wm Ripley Nichols, Charles R Cross (1866)
"But as the acid soaks away the ink it is followed by the copper solution, and a
coating of metallic copper is deposited within the ..."
3. Modern American Tanning: A Practical Treatise on the Manufacture of Leather (1910)
"MILD CHEMICALS IN soaks A SAVING. The chemical used for this purpose should be
... The use of a mild chemical in the soaks is saving annually to the tanners ..."
4. Parliamentary Debates: Senate and House of Representatives by Australia Parliament (1911)
"They were the origin of the soaks. Senator PEARCE.—That is so; the Government
made dams at the foot of the rocks, and the rocks acted as a roof and a ..."
5. Writing of Today: Models of Journalistic Prose by John William Cunliffe, Gerhard Richard Lomer (1922)
"Such qualities alone phenomena of life and character, selected ter which soaks
it with ... soaks ..."
6. Diary of a Daly Débutante: Being Passages from the Journal of a Member of by Dora Knowlton Thompson Ranous (1910)
"Then he calmly gets up, walks over to a bucket of water and soaks his hair dripping
wet, afterward dipping his face and arms into it so that they will drip ..."
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