leakage

Founding-era definition · Webster's 1828 American Dictionary

LE'AKAGE, noun 1. A leaking; or the quantity of a liquor that enters or issues by leaking. 2. An allowance, in commerce, of a certain rate per cent, for the leaking of casks, or the waste of liquors by leaking.
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