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What does leech mean?

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Noun
  1. An aquatic blood-sucking annelid of class Hirudinea, especially Hirudo medicinalis.
  2. A person who derives profit from others in a parasitic fashion.
  3. (medicine) A glass tube designed for drawing blood from damaged tissue by means of a vacuum.
Verb
  1. (transitive) To apply a leech medicinally, so that it sucks blood from the patient.
  2. (transitive) To drain (resources) without giving back.
Noun
  1. (archaic) A physician.
  2. (paganism, Heathenry) A healer.
Verb
  1. (archaic, rare) To treat, cure or heal.
Noun
  1. (nautical) The vertical edge of a square sail.
  2. (nautical) The aft edge of a triangular sail.
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