leech🔊

(Q43012)An aquatic blood-sucking annelid of class (subclass), especially (species).

(figuratively) A person who derives profit from others in a parasitic fashion.

(dated) A glass tube designed for drawing blood from damaged tissue by means of a vacuum.

(literally) To apply a leech medicinally, so that it sucks blood from the patient.

(figuratively) To drain (resources) without giving back.

(physician) (archaic) A physician.

(Germanic paganism) A healer.

(rare) To treat, cure or heal.

(sail) (nautical) The vertical edge of a square sail.

(nautical) The aft edge of a triangular sail.