carnivorous or bloodsucking aquatic or terrestrial worms typically having a sucker at each end
An aquatic blood-sucking annelid of class Hirudinea, especially Hirudo medicinalis.
A physician.
The vertical edge of a square sail.
draw blood
"In the old days, doctors routinely bled patients as part of the treatment"
To apply a leech medicinally, so that it sucks blood from the patient.
To treat, cure or heal.
A surname, from occupations, derived from the profession leech, a former word for a physician.