Shakily, he lowered himself to the floor beside Bern and squatted on his haunches, waiting for the hiss of the bleeder valve that would tell him that the air pressure had been raised to allow someone to enter the air lock.
"Psichopath"
Gordon Randall Garrett
But Tancrede, his head surgeon, was old, and an unskilful bleeder: he had missed fire once.
"The Memoirs of Louis XIV., Volume 3 And His Court and of The Regency"
Duc de Saint-Simon
Why, you, yer bleeder!
"The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists"
Robert Tressell