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LEAKAGE

Volume 2 · 67 words · 1771 Edition

the state of a vessel that leaks, or lets water or other liquid ouze in or out.

commerce, is an allowance of 12 per cent. in the customs, allowed to importers of wines for the waste and damage it is supposed to have received in the passage: an allowance of two barrels in twenty-two is also made to the brewers of ale and beer, by the excise-office.