fleam

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Etymology 1

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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.

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fleam (plural fleams)

  1. A sharp instrument used to open a vein, to lance gums, or the like.
    • 1831-1850, William Youatt, On the Structure and the Diseases of the Horse
      A bloodstick - a piece of hard wood loaded at one end with lead — is used to strike the fleam into the vein
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Etymology 2

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From Middle English fleem, flem (the rushing of water; current), probably from Old English flēam (fleeing; flight; rush), from Proto-Germanic *flaumaz (stream; current; flood), from Proto-Indo-European *plew- (to fly; flow; run). Cognate with Norwegian Nynorsk flaum (flood).

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fleam (plural fleams)

  1. (UK, dialectal, Northern England) The watercourse or runoff from a mill; millstream
  2. (UK, dialectal, Northern England) A large trench or gully cut into a meadow in order to drain it
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Verb

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fleam

  1. first-person singular present active subjunctive of fleō

Middle English

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fleam

  1. (Early Middle English) Alternative form of flem

Old English

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From Proto-Germanic *flaumaz.

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flēam m

  1. escape, flight
    Fram sagum ne biþ nān flēam: hīe nabbaþ nānne anġinn and nānne ende.
    There is no escape from stories: they have no beginning and no end.
    Þā ġeflogenan rǣplingas sind nū ġīet on flēame.
    The escaped prisoners are still on the run (literally "in flight" or "in an escape").

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