fleam

Sharpe took the fleam and the blood stick from the Major.

The tail race was also called a fleam or a leat.

He cleaned the fleam thoroughly and dropped it into the steriliser.

"Mmphm," he said, but took the fleam carefully by the handle.

She stepped forward and presented the fleam ceremoniously to Murray, handle first.

If nothing else, I might accidentally step on his fleam and break it; that's probably the only way I'll stop him bleeding people.

I waved in farewell at him, and he gave me an abstracted nod, turning to pick up his fleam.

He took off his red coat, chose a fleam blade at random and stepped up to the shivering stallion.

In my urge to show off by making the diagnosis-and keep Murray from using his stained, rusty-looking fleam.

The fleam looked like a mis-shapen penknife, and inside its brass case were folded a dozen blades.

The stick was a small wooden club that was needed to drive the fleam's blade through a horse's thick skin.

Other names for the same thing include fleam (probably a leat supplying water to a mill that did not have a millpool).

These devices with their right-angle blades are the earliest forms of what collectors would now refer to as the fleam.

"There is a fleam and bowl in the top left drawer, Mrs. Fraser.

Finally he opened the old leather-covered box and extracted the fleam, wrapped in sterile lint.

An undershot water wheel turned by the mill fleam on the west side of the new mill drove the spinning machines.

Particularly the blood stick and fleam, a relic of medieval times, but still used to bring the rich blood spouting into a bucket.

Inside, a fleam, glittering on its bed of frayed velvet, lay by the side of a round, polished blood stick.

A groom hurried to the General's side carrying a fleam and a blood stick, both of which he mutely offered to Wellesley.

Pictured to the right is a three-blade fleam with a horn handle made in Scotland by the Sanderson craftsmen.

Siegfried placed the little blade of the fleam against the bulging vein and without hesitation gave it a confident smack with the stick.

"Bilious humors," MacLeod said loudly, snapping open his fleam.

It was a cotton doubling mill and employed around 100 workers, water from the brook being brought to the mill via a long mill fleam.