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Old Feb 25, 2013, 12:59 pm
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Originally Posted by starflyergold
That's the look my mother of Irish ancestry would give me for that line.

But seriously, I was curious about the word origin, not the definition. Looking at the definitions of wet and dry leases, I cannot infer why the terms wet and dry are used. My best guess is that something wet dries out over a relatively short time, hence wet is used to designate the shorter lease.
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