Noun: fleam
| Singular | fleam |
| Plural | fleams |
Sample Sentences
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1831-1850, William Youatt, On the Structure and the Diseases of the Horse
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A bloodstick - a piece of hard wood loaded at one end with lead — is used to strike the fleam into the vein
Nouns inflected like fleam
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
From Middle English fleme, fleom, from Old French flieme, flemie (“open vein”), probably via a Proto-Germanic source (compare Old Saxon flēma, Old High German fliotuma, fliodema, Old English flȳtme (“fleam, lancet”)), borrowed from Vulgar Latin fletoma, *fletomus, from Late Latin flebotomus, phlebotomus, from Ancient Greek φλεβοτόμον (phlebotómon). Compare French flamme, Dutch vlijm, German Fliete, Danish flitte (“fleam”). Doublet of phlebotome. See: Middle English Nouns '
fleme', Old English Nouns '
flȳtme', French Nouns '
flamme', Dutch Nouns '
vlijm', German Nouns '
Fliete'.
Verbs referencing "fleam"
German Nouns
Fliete.