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bloodstick

noun

Etymology

From blood + stick.

  1. derived from *(s)teyg-✻ — “to pierce, prick, be sharp”
  2. inherited from *stikkô✻
  3. inherited from *stikkō✻
  4. inherited from sticca
  5. inherited from stikke
  6. compounded as bloodstick — “blood + stick”

Definitions

  1. A piece of hard wood loaded at one end with lead, used to strike the fleam into the vein.

    • 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

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