bloodstick means A piece of hard wood loaded at one end with lead, used to strike the fleam into the vein.
Etymology
From blood + stick.
noun
- A piece of hard wood loaded at one end with lead, used to strike the fleam into the vein.“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”