fleam

名词 n.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  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
  2. The watercourse or runoff from a mill; millstream Northern-England,UK,dialectal
  3. A large trench or gully cut into a meadow in order to drain it Northern-England,UK,dialectal

词形变化

fleams plural phleam alternative fleams plural fleem alternative

词汇关系

相关词
fleme Flemish

词源

词源 1
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.
词源 2
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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