| 单词 | blood-stick |
| 释义 | > as lemmasblood-stick blood-stick n. now rare a short, heavy stick used to drive a fleam into a horse's vein. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > healing > veterinary medicine and surgery > [noun] > veterinary equipment > bloodletting instruments > striker for blood-stick1671 striker1688 1671 J. Halfpenny Gentleman's Jocky 120 You must cast the Horse first, then you must beat the place with a blood stick or other stick till you feel it soft. 1797 Encycl. Brit. VII. 112/1 Unskilful people have likewise a custom of waving or shaking the blood-stick before they strike the fleam in view of the horse. 1831 W. Youatt Horse x. 179 A bloodstick, a piece of hard wood loaded at one end with lead, is used to strike the fleam into the vein. 1903 J. A. W. Dollar Pract. Vet. Surg. I. 148 The fleam is caused to penetrate the vein by a sharp blow from the hand or blood-stick. 1930 J. J. O'Connor Dollar's Vet. Surg. (ed. 2) ii. ii. 257 Have the corresponding eye blindfolded to prevent the horse being frightened by the use of the blood stick. Have the fleam in the left hand. < as lemmas |
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