soak

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In the third boiler I made coffee; I kept it a-soak, and as soon as it boiled I put it strong into buckets, one-third full of cold water.

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  1. transitive verb To make thoroughly wet or saturated by or as if by placing in liquid.
  2. transitive verb To immerse in liquid for a period of time.
  3. transitive verb To absorb (liquid, for example) through or as if through pores or interstices.
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  • Monty would throw one into a basin of water to soak, and after it was pliable he would run tap water into it to check for leaks. —  Secret Ceremonies
  • He had just settled in for a soak, with the lights dimmed, when Sarah came into the bathroom. —  The Short Forever
  • At present, Tri-Valley engages in alternating steam / soak / production cycles in advance of drilling dedicated well bores for continuous steaming of the formation and may drill one such dedicated steaming well bore this year to test the efficacy of that approach. —  Marketwire - Breaking News Releases
  • Much depended on the interpretation of F19 as a drainage feature, which never quite made sense; the gravel soil at Orsett drained fairly well, so F19 could be a soak-away, but it had a volume of 20m³, enough to hold a months rainfall running off the roof all at once. —  British Blogs
  • Get these thin nylon micro-fiber wallets wet and they dry out in 1-2 hours from a full soak or accidental machine wash. —  Random Good Stuff
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Etymologies (3)

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  1. Middle English soken, from Old English socian; see seuə-2 in Indo-European roots.

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  1. from Middle English soken, soak, suck, from Anglo-Saxon socian, soak (Anglo-Saxon Leechdoms, ii. 252, 1. 11; iii. 14, 1. 17), literally suck, a secondary form of sūcan (past participle socen), suck: see suck.
  2. from soak, v.
 

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