Fleam

He fumbled in his pockets as he spoke, and, as chance would it, the "fleam" (or cattle lancet) was somewhere about his dress. ❋ Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell (1837)

Just as you can use Google images to see what a fleam looks like without knowing what it means or how to translate destornillador without bothering to find out what language it is, you can use Google trends to learn about words that have distinct temporal profiles. ❋ Unknown (2006)

Lacking a decent syringe for drawing blood, I'd merely pierced the vein inside his elbow with a fleam, and drained off the welling blood into a small vial. ❋ Gabaldon, Diana (2005)

Among these was a blacksmith and farrier, who took cognizance of his carcase, every limb of which having examined, he declared there was no bone broken, and taking out his fleam, blooded him plentifully as he lay. ❋ Unknown (2004)

Clinker perceiving these signs of life, immediately tied up his arm with a garter, and, pulling out a horse-fleam, let him blood in the farrier stile. — ❋ Unknown (2004)

Loggun (Denham and Clapperton), the Fán fleam, the “small piece of iron like an ace of spades on the upper Nile” ❋ Unknown (2003)

The article I chiefly accused myself of forgetting was a stout English clasp-knife, with a large handle, a blade like an “Arkansas toothpick,” and possessing the other useful appliances of picker, fleam, tweezers, lancet, and punch. ❋ Unknown (2003)

She realized that she was making him wait, contemplate the fleam lying in its case, and listen to the furnace that would soon consume him. ❋ Whitley Strieber (2002)

After lacing the black sneakers, she pulled back the baseboard where she kept her cache, and withdrew the fleam she kept there. ❋ Whitley Strieber (2002)

She laid the fleam against his neck, flicked it into the vein, drew it out. ❋ Whitley Strieber (2002)

Modesty prompted her to step outside when the apothecary drew down the linen sheet to make his examination, and it was not until she heard a small cry of distress that she flung open the door, to find the young apothecary, fleam in hand, and Lizzie, her face white as chalk, red blood streaming from a cut in the crook of her elbow. ❋ Gabaldon, Diana (1997)

I had occasion to bleed several of the horses and, from the mere incision caused by the fleam, the necks of several swelled up very much although every precaution was adopted. ❋ John McKinlay (N/A)

Taking a fleam from her pocket, she lanced the lump and let it bleed freely. ❋ Gordon Sellar (N/A)

Egone illum non fleam? egon non defleam talem adulescentem? ❋ Titus Maccius Plautus (1919)

A missionary who rode a noble, black Andalusian stallion, who could use a fleam as well as a blacksmith's hammer, who could ride barebacked, and, above all, made men fear him as a physical rather than a spiritual force, was new in Spain, as indeed elsewhere. ❋ Jenkins, Herbert (1912)

There were two obstacles in the way of this operation's performance; the first being that Mr. Sprague had no proper instruments by him beyond a fleam and a syringe, with which, and with however good a will, you can scarcely sever a Man's limb from his Body; and the next that Mr. Sprague was not sober. ❋ George Augustus Sala (1861)

(Denham and Clapperton), the Fán fleam, the "small piece of iron like an ace of spades on the upper Nile" (Baker), and the iron money of the brachycephalic Nyam-nyams described and drawn by ❋ Richard Francis Burton (1855)

After my dog [got off] the [sofa], I sat in his spot and enjoyed his [fleam]. ❋ Happy Possum (2009)

I used a [fleam] to [help] my fleam [Alfred]. ❋ Master Of Beargreen (2023)