{"id":18231,"date":"2020-05-10T10:36:20","date_gmt":"2020-05-10T17:36:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/?p=18231"},"modified":"2020-05-03T23:44:34","modified_gmt":"2020-05-04T06:44:34","slug":"fleam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/2020\/05\/10\/fleam\/","title":{"rendered":"fleam"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n<p>Another word I encountered recently in a Thurber essay is <i>fleam<\/i>.<\/p>\r\n<p>According to Wikipedia:<\/p>\r\n<blockquote>\r\n<p>A <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Fleam\">fleam<\/a>, also <i>flem<\/i>, <i>flew<\/i>, <i>flue<\/i>, <i>fleame<\/i>, or <i>phleam<\/i>, was a handheld instrument used for bloodletting.<\/p>\r\n<\/blockquote>\r\n<p>For a great deal more on that topic, see also <a href=\"http:\/\/bowsbladesandbattles.tripod.com\/sitebuildercontent\/sitebuilderfiles\/fleam.pdf\">A Short History of the Fleam<\/a>, by Kevin Goodman, who\u2019s described as also being the author of \u201cOuch! A History of Arrow Wound Treatment from Prehistory to the Nineteenth Century.\u201d<\/p>\r\n<p>Merriam-Webster\u2019s Unabridged mentions the bloodletting tool, but also notes that fleam can mean:<\/p>\r\n<blockquote>\r\n<p>angle of bevel of the edge of a sawtooth with respect to the plane of the blade<\/p>\r\n<\/blockquote>\r\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[58],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18231","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-new-to-me-words"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18231","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18231"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18231\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18232,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18231\/revisions\/18232"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18231"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18231"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18231"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}