bleedern.
/ˈbliːdə/, U.S. /ˈblidər/ 1.
a. One who draws blood.
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the world > health and disease > healing > healer > surgeon > [noun] > performing specific operations > bloodletting
bloodletterOE
ventoserc1340
lettera1400
phlebotomer?a1425
blooder1495
phlebotomist1618
arteriotomist1684
bleeder1788
cupper1812
Sangrado1812
venesector1890
1788 H. Watson in Med. Communications 2 276 These accidents..seldom hurt the reputation of the bleeder.
1823 C. Lamb Artific. Comedy in Elia 332 Submits to the scythe of the gentle bleeder, Time.
1848 W. M. Thackeray Vanity Fair lxi. 552 The bleeders and cuppers came.
b. One who extorts money. U.S.
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the mind > possession > taking > extortion > [noun] > one who
wringera1300
askera1325
extortionerc1375
exactor1382
scaffer?a1513
shaver1534
caterpillar1541
bloodsucker?1555
suck-purse1586
griper1587
extortor1590
exacter1596
extorter1605
barathrum1609
wreather1648
shark1713
vampire1741
bleeder1846
flayer1865
extortionist1885
Shylock1894
1846 ‘Lord Chief Baron’ Swell's Night Guide (new ed.) 114/1 Bleeder, a sponger.
1894 Columbus (Ohio) Dispatch 5 Oct. The police of New York were not the only bleeders.
2. Medicine. A person subject to hæmophilia, i.e. disposed by natural constitution to bleed.
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the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > discharge or flux > [noun] > bleeding or flow of blood > bleeding disease > person
bleeder1803
haemophilic1864
haemophiliac1896
1803 J. C. Otto in Med. Repository 6 3 Some persons..suppose they can distinguish the bleeders..even in infancy.
1884 Brit. Med. Jrnl. in Standard 4 Apr. 3/5 Free blood in the knee-joints of a bleeder.
3. low slang. A very stupid, unpleasant, or contemptible person; also transferred; also used inoffensively, preceded by little, poor, etc., = devil n. 4b.
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the mind > goodness and badness > inferiority or baseness > inferior person > [noun] > held in contempt
thingOE
cat?c1225
geggea1300
fox-whelpc1320
creaturea1325
whelp1338
scoutc1380
turnbroach14..
foumart1508
shit1508
get?a1513
strummel?a1513
scofting?1518
pismirea1535
clinchpoop1555
rag1566
huddle and twang1578
whipster1590
slop1599
shullocka1603
tailor1607
turnspit1607
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bulchin1617
trundle-taila1626
tick1631
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fart1669
insect1684
mully-grub-gurgeon1746
grub-worm1752
rass1790
foutre1794
blister1806
snot1809
skin1825
scurf1851
scut1873
Siwash1882
stiff1882
bleeder1887
blighter1896
sugar1916
vuilgoed1924
klunk1942
fart sack1943
fart-arse1946
jerkwad1980
1887 Sessions Paper 26 Apr. 16 Look out, Carry; don't let the bleeder take me.
1889 A. Barrère & C. G. Leland Dict. Slang I. 134/2 (University), a ‘regular bleeder’ signifies a superlative duffer.
1902 J. H. M. Abbott Tommy Cornstalk xi. 188 ‘Bleeder’..seemed to be a pet name for a typical low-class Londoner—a slum-dragger.
1913 D. H. Lawrence Sons & Lovers xiii. 343 ‘What'll you have?’..‘Nowt wi' a bleeder like you!’
1936 ‘J. Curtis’ Gilt Kid xxiv. 241 Give me the damn groin, you robbing bleeder.
1938 L. MacNeice Earth Compels 59 His brother caught three hundred cran... Threw the bleeders back in the sea.
1952 A. Baron With Hope, Farewell 44 She'll kill the poor little bleeder.
4.
a. A pipe, valve, or the like used for ‘bleeding’ (see bleeding n. 3). Also attributive.
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society > occupation and work > equipment > other specific types of equipment > [noun] > extracting tools
screw1697
extractor1753
tack-lifter1858
tickler1875
bleeder1893
1893 I. K. Funk et al. Standard Dict. Eng. Lang. I Bleeder..a pipe fitted on engines by which steam may be passed directly from the main steam-pipe to the condenser. Called also bleeder-pipe.
1910 Hawkins' Electr. Dict. 38/2 Bleeder, a small cock or valve to draw off water of condensation from a range of piping.
b. A resistor, permanently connected across a voltage source to improve voltage regulation. In full, bleeder resistance or resistor. Also attributive.
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the world > matter > physics > electromagnetic radiation > electronics > electronic devices or components > [noun] > resistor
high-frequency resistance1892
decade1911
voltage divider1930
bleeder resistance or resistor1935
resistor1947
1935 A. R. Nilson & J. L. Hornung Pract. Radio Communication xiii. 609 The value of the bleeder resistance in transmitting circuits depends on conditions in the circuit. A value of bleeder current equal to 25 or 30 per cent of the total drain on the rectifier unit is used in many installations.
1953 Electronic Engin. 25 202/1 The voltage across a small part of a..bleeder resistor.
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