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All 5 letters words made out of fleam

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Definitions and meaning of fleam

fleam

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /fliːm/
• Rhymes: -iːm

Etymology 1

From Middle English fleme, fleom, from Old French flieme, flemie (“open vein”), probably via a Proto-Germanic source (compare Old Saxon flēma, Old High German fliotuma, fliodema, Old English flȳtme, flītme (“fleam, lancet”)), borrowed from Vulgar Latin fletoma, *fletomus, from Late Latin flebotomus, phlebotomus, from Ancient Greek φλεβοτόμον (phlebotómon). Compare French flamme, Dutch vlijm, German Fliete, Danish flitte (“fleam”). Doublet of phlebotome.

Alternative forms

• phleam (archaic)

Noun

fleam (plural fleams)

1. A sharp instrument used to open a vein, to lance gums, or the like.
   • 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

Hypernyms

• (sharp instrument): lancet

Derived terms

• fleam saw
• fleam tooth

Translations

Etymology 2

From Middle English fleem, flem (“the rushing of water; current”), probably from Old English flēam (“fleeing; flight; rush”), from Proto-Germanic *flaumaz (“stream; current; flood”), from Proto-Indo-European *plew- (“to fly; flow; run”). Cognate with Norwegian Nynorsk flaum (“flood”).

Alternative forms

• fleem

Noun

fleam (plural fleams)

1. (UK, dialectal, Northern England) The watercourse or runoff from a mill; millstream
2. (UK, dialectal, Northern England) A large trench or gully cut into a meadow in order to drain it

Related terms

• fleme (verb)
• Flemish

Anagrams

• femal, flame

Latin

Verb

fleam

1. first-person singular present active subjunctive of fleō

Middle English

Noun

fleam

1. (Early Middle English) Alternative form of flem

Old English

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *flaumaz.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /flæ͜ɑːm/

Noun

flēam m

1. escape, flight

Declension

Derived terms

• flīeman
• tōflēam

Descendants

• Middle English: flem, fleem, fleme; flæm, fleam, vlem
  • English: fleam (dialectal)
  • Scots: fleem