Usually means: Historical tool for bloodletting practice.
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  1. fleam: Collins English Dictionary
  2. fleam: Wordnik
  3. fleam: Wiktionary
  4. fleam: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  5. fleam: Infoplease Dictionary
  6. fle'am, fleam: Dictionary.com
  7. Fleam: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  8. Fleam: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  9. fleam: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  10. Fleam: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  11. fleam: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  12. fleam: FreeDictionary.org
  13. fleam: The Phrontistery - A Dictionary of Obscure Words
  14. fleam: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. fleam: Encyclopedia

Medicine (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. fleam: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
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  3. fleam: Medical dictionary

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  1. Fleam: Urban Dictionary

Definitions from Wiktionary (fleam)

noun:  A sharp instrument used to open a vein, to lance gums, or the like.
noun:  (UK, dialectal, Northern England) The watercourse or runoff from a mill; millstream
noun:  (UK, dialectal, Northern England) A large trench or gully cut into a meadow in order to drain it

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