Bleeder

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.”