bleeder

Meaning

Noun

• A person who is easily made to bleed, or who bleeds in unusually large amounts, particularly a hemophiliac.
• A blood vessel that requires cauterization etc. to stop it from bleeding during surgery.
• Anything that saps a resource produced by something else.
• A valve designed to release a small amount of excess pressure from a system.
• A troublesome fellow or thing; a blighter.
• Synonym of scratch hit

Origin

• bleed + -er