Bleeder

Definitions

1. A person who is easily made to bleed, or who bleeds in unusually large amounts, particularly a hemophiliac.
2. A blood vessel that requires cauterization etc. to stop it from bleeding during surgery.
3. Anything that saps a resource produced by something else.
4. A valve designed to release a small amount of excess pressure from a system.
5. A troublesome fellow or thing; a blighter.
   Commonwealth, Ireland, UK, derogatory, slang
6. Synonym of scratch hit.
7. A person who menstruates (used in the context of transgender inclusivity).

Equivalents

Examples

“And then finally to pass⟳ on to the rising generation there were Sean's two little girls Rose and Cerise, aged five and four respectively, and these innocent little girlies were bleeders like⟳ their papa and mama […]”

“Ligate or cauterize small subcutaneous bleeders and identify⟳ the linea alba.”

“His brother caught three hundred cran when the seas were lavish, / Threw the bleeders back in the sea and went upon the parish.”

“‘Well, what did the old bleeder say⟳?’ said Opus Fluke.”

“Vostral (2008) sees menstrual technology as focused on allowing women to “pass⟳” as non-bleeders, speaking to the sense⟳ of the female body as dysfunctional, problematic, and “out of control⟳.””

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