[-ING2.] That leaks or lets water in or out; that has a leak or leaks. † Also of weather, showery.
c. 1420. Pallad. on Husb., I. 450. When this siment is maad, hit most insinke Vche hole & chene and euery lekyng ston.
1534. More, Treat. Pass. Wks., 1386/2. Whoso lyke a foole placeth hymselfe in a leakinge shyppe.
1610. Folkingham, Art of Surv., I. xi. 35. A loose and light Sand swords slow and thin, yet with rest and lecking sommers it yeelds good Corne.
1611. Bible, Heb. ii. 1. Lest at any time we should let them slip [marg. run out as leaking vessels].
1612. T. Taylor, Comm. Titus iii. 1. Out of a leaking vessell good things are euer running out.
c. 1614. Sir W. Mure, Dido & Æneas, I. 290. Their leiking seames drink in the floods so fast.
1678. Dryden & Lee, Œdipus, II. i. (1679), 18. All dart at once their baleful influence In leaking Fire.
1863. A. B. Grosart, Small Sins, 36. Leaking timber.
